Why don't western 3rd party developers support Nintendosystems?

[Mr Khan]

jarrod said:

SaviorX said:

Rockstar (then known as DMA Design) was prepped to be Nintendo's new Rare/Retro; a second-party associate.

Ninty dropped em in the N64 gen. Then they got vengeance in 2001.

Yeah, there was definitely bad blood between Rockstar North and Nintendo after the whole Body Harvest debacle.  Nintendo at one point even wanted them to turn it into a RPG before they finally just pulled the plug.

To this day, I doubt Rockstar North will ever develop on a Nintendo platform after what happened with N64.

TakeTwo *will* force them (at least in regards to properties TakeTwo has a say in), so long as Nintendo's next console is in the multiplat loop next time around. Given all the "multiplat everything" ravings of various publishers, they won't leave devs with a choice.