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

[Zlejedi]

jarrod said:

Zlejedi said:

Didn't a really strict censorship in past Nintendo system also have effect on N64 ?

Nope.  Once the ESRB was in place (and similar industry ratings boards were created in other markets), Nintendo became the most lenient of the hardware manufacturers.  The GC version of BMX XXX is actually the version with the least amount of censorship for example.

To give you an idea of what things were like back then, here's an old interview with Enix of America back around when DQVII was getting ready to release.

 

RPGFan: Did Nintendo give you any problems about the rating?  

John: Nintendo really doesn't give us any problems about the content in our RPGs. They're pretty hands-off now that the ESRB is around. The only company that has given us problems is like Sony.

Interesting I've read that Sega was much more friendly toward mature content which was further emphasized by sege does what Nintendon't campaign.