Azelover on 16 August 2009
Nintendo doesn't want to start bidding wars with the other companies, in terms of paying for support, because they're much bigger, especially Microsoft. So that puts them at a disadvantage very often, although sometimes they make exceptions when their relationship with the developer is really good.
The Wii is a little different because well, it is different. It's a new paradigm developers don't know what to do with. And to this day they don't really understand it. This puts Nintendo at an advantage where Microsoft and Sony also don't get it, but it creates a difficult situation with the third parties.
So no, I don't think their current difficulties are inherited, that was largely over with by the end of the Gamecube days. This one is new.
