Metallicube said:
Nintendo is the best first party developer in terms of quality games, and the industry knows it. That's why they are on full damage control mode right now, because it's right before E3, when Nintendo could blow everybody away with Zelda, 3DS, and Vitality Sensor.
The more hate Nintendo gets, the better they are doing. That's my perspective at least.
The fact is, at least while Sony and MS are in the industry, there is NOTHING Nintendo could ever do to gain significant 3rd party support. They have made their console the cheapest, easiest to develop for, have worked with them, let them make essentially any game they want, and have established a market leading 71 million userbase, and still the 3rd parties shun or ignore them. They are forever doomed to half assed or no 3rd party support, that is unless Nintendo games greatly drop in quality or lessen drastically in sales and support. It's a paradox really, in that the better Nintendo is, the more alone they are, and will continue to be.
This is because unlike with MS, and Sony to a lesser extent, these 3rd parties are in direct competition with Nintendo, and lets face it, most of their games don't hold a candle to Nintendo's games. And rather than going through the hassle of actually examining the userbase, and creating a better game with more effort and more appeal, it's easier to just run to the HD consoles, where Nintendo is not competing with them.
Whether or not they want to admit it, most of these 3rd parties would love nothing more than the Wii to fail, and the PS3 and 360 to dominate the charts. This way, their biggest threat, Nintendo, will be marginilzed like during the N64/GC days and they can shine on the consoles with weaker 1st party libraries. Unfourtunately for them, the customer has seen otherwise, and the customer is always right.
And don't fall for the "it's hard to develop separately for the Wii because it's not HD, THAT's why it gets little support!" argument. It is merely an excuse. Remember that Gamecube and N64 both had comparable hardware to their competitors, yet still they got shunned. Because even with powerful hardware, the consoles still present one problem for the 3rd parties, and that problem is Nintendo.
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