| Mr Khan said: Their alienation of yore was because they were playing hardball, but the alienation of today is more because they refuse to play ball at all. Instead of reaching out and dominating devs like they did, now they're not reaching out at all. A laissez-faire attitude towards 3rd party development, which keeps them at odds. |
What nintendo provides to Third party developers is a huge audience that can enjoy their products. Nintendo plays it differently from Microsoft and Sony. When the latter two fight for exclusives and perform partnerships or other things to guarantee an exlusive game or content, Nintendo just works to sell as many consoles as possible so third party can have a wide audience to sell their games. Nintendo provides support to developers when asked (High Voltage and Capcom worked with Nintendo).
Nintendo follows the phrase o the movie "Field of Dreams":
-Build it [a huge audience], and they [third party] will come-
