Reggie talks about 3d parties, Nintendo not good at creating certain games

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deathcape said:

Scoobes said:

Sempuukyaku said:
I don't want Nintendo selling out, sorry. I'm VERY happy with what Nintendo creates. That's what makes Nintendo....Nintendo. They don't need to be making Bioshock/Modern Warfare/Mass Effect types of stuff. That's not who they are. No one is demanding that Bethesda make a kid's platformer, are they?

Thought so.

No, but Bethesda aren't a platform holder. If you own the platform you have some responsibility to supply customers with games. They do that very well with they're core Nintendo franchises and with the new demographics they've helped create. However, for the other traditional games they haven't and Reggie admits this in his statement. As the platform holder and console manufacturer if they're is a gap in your software library that could be profitable and is in demand then you should be trying to fill that demand either through 3rd party negotiation or 1st/2nd party. Nintendo doesn't seem to have succeeded in either.

With the amount of money they're making and considering how small they are, they could easily splash out and publish a title from a small dev making a core non-Nintendo title. With Nintendo overseeing the title it'd probably be of pretty good quality.

you have it completely backwards..if there IS a gap then 3rd parties should be working hard to fill it seeing as THEY will be the ones making a huge profit..not Nintendo

 

THAT is the problem

why should NINTENDO seek out 3rd parties??? it's like living in the hood and owning the best vault ever, and going out to ask people to put their stuff in it...WHY?! they should do it for themselves and pay you for it..christ

It's not backwards, it's Nintendo's platform. At the end of the day they're the ones responsible for the content. If 3rd parties aren't producing games for your platform then it's the platform holders responsibility to bring them in and convince those devs that it's worthwhile to produce games for the said platform. At the moment they aren't suceeding where MS, Sony and even (to a lesser extent) Valve are.

The 3rd-parties are nearly as much customers of Nintendo as we are as they have to pay Nintendo as the platform holder per game sold. As with anything you have to advertise and convince them to invest in your platform. Nintendo do a fantastic job of advertsing to us the consumer, but apparently a poor one of advertising to the 3rd parties.

Basically:

Nintendo's platform, Nintendo's responsibility.