Do thirdparties dislike Nintendo?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Khuutra said:
That third parties are in competition with each other is pretty reflexive for most people. That they are in competition with first parties may be slightly less intuitive, but it is just as (if not even more) true.

Generally, for generations, third parties have been what ultimately decided console wars. They carried the Playstation to victory over the N64, they propped the Playstation 2 over the Xbox and Gamecube...and now?

And now.

Third parties are trying to compete with Nintendo in niches that Nintendo are creating as they go along. They're failing. Third party support for the system is good, for people who see the Wii as an opportunity to innovate and reach new audiences, but third parties who want to compete with Nintendo are seeing for the first time that Nintendo can not only curb-stomp all of them put together, but that they (third parties) are quickly becoming irrelevant in establishing who wins the console race.

And when one company can decide who wins the race (as Nintendo has), one company is able to put a stranglehold on the industry. Thrid parties that put all their efforts behind the 360 and PS3 are essentially having their potential userbases and their potential money kicked out from under them by Nintendo. I can understand why they'd be pissed, in that respect.

But... dislike? No. Nothing so personal. Cognitive dissonance from betting on the wrong horse and a slight feeling of powerlessness is probably closer.

Yeah.  Seriously.  It's pretty funny.  Nintendo decided to tackle every genre ever (and improve them with new controls on either the DS or the Wii), and they invented several new ones at once, immediately giving themselves the most diverse gaming library, which is what wins every console war.  Normally it takes an army of 3rd parties several years to do that, and you get some new genres like Guitar Hero and stuff, but now Nintendo's inventing (and re-inventing) everything and everybody else is playing catch-up.  At some point a couple years ago, Nintendo got some sort of magic crystal that let them never make another mistake, and it also let them see the future.  I'm having a hard time coming up with another possible theory.