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griffinA on 07 May 2009
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megaman79 said:
Dodece said:
@trestres

You do understand that blame is a two way street. While your blaming these third party developers you should be pitching a little blame at Nintendo while you are on a rant. Nintendo is just as much as fault for the lack of quality third party titles on their platform as the third party developers themselves.

Nintendo needs to know how to play the game. How to play nice with others. Give the third party developers the support they need. Nintendo needs to pioneer genre development on their console. Nintendo needs to secure exclusives. This has been a issue with Nintendo for years. Basically it is being stingy when it comes to their consoles.

You need to be more upset with Nintendo. They should be purchasing exclusives to ensure their console has the variety and quality its customers deserve. They should be expanding their offerings into mature titles to prove to developers that their console will not be age group defined. They should even be expanding their marketing.

No I am not being an ass. I would like to see Nintendo get over itself, and start working towards having better developer relations. I have owned five Nintendo consoles, and I can tell you how this story plays out. Everyone will relearn the lesson from generations past, and give the next Nintendo a wide berth. You are learning this right now. Nintendo cannot be relied upon to maintain a high quality diverse lineup. They need third party developers for that, and they are just not delivering, and it isn't because the Wii is selling poorly.

I just think it is shameless to blame third party developers when it is just as much if not more so the fault of Nintendo.

 

I think this is a really complicated cluster f---k management problem but seriously wtf do we do about that? Im happy to praise Nintendo for their non formulaic, business lite appearance and structure, after all this is why there games and system designs are so unique, but i just dk whether they really have a clue about business management.

Just remember the floodgates opened, literally and metaphorically, following DQ and MH3, we'll see what happens this yr in the Western markets.

Yeah, they're just making money hand-over fist...what do they know about business?

 

OT: If Nintendo didn't announce ANY first-party hames at E3 I wouldn't care. Between Tales of Graces, The Crystal Bearers, Monster Hunter 3, Silent Hill, Muramasa and The Conduit (plus a bunch others), I couldn't be happier this year.  



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