Who believes Wii's successor will have better third party support?

[LordTheNightKnight]

NoirSon said:

O-D-C said:

Im starting to think 3rd parties just dont like Nintendo, the N64, Gamecube and Wii all paled in comparison for 3rd party support to what Sony and Microsoft got.

Only on the handhelds does Nintendo seem to get great 3rd party exclusives

It's not that they don't like Nintendo. Its just that Nintendo has the habit of scaring developers and publishers off.

N64: Strongest system in real time graphics for its generation (not counting the Dreamcast) but the cartridge format scared a lot of developers and publishers off.

GC: More powerful then the PS2, but the controller and limited size on GC discs (1.5 compared to full DVDs on both PS2 and original Xbox) limited it.

Wii: Biggest fan base, but most developers thought it would fail early on, so when it didn't they scrambled and found themselves working with hardware that was supposed to be cheaper and easier to develop for but was not challenging or gave enough freedom for developers. The standard controller and its unique (or restrictive without MotionPlus) schemes hasn't won over a lot of developers either.

 

So it isn't so much as hate... although I don't doubt a few publishers do hate that Nintendo can almost consistently kill one of their titles in genre's they try their hands in. That being said, if publishers make money off it, they would release it, it is just mainly so few want to divert the funds to create a better product that could sell.

Some people here have talked to developers, at a lot more hate Nintendo than you think.