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MrT-Tar on 07 July 2011
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radiantshadow92 said:
Viper1 said:
radiantshadow92 said:

On a serious note,  third parties have tried to release games on the wii including indy devs to no avail because of nintendo, including the conduit and De blob creators. Theres a reason why third parties have all but abandonded Nintendo, people just loves to blame the third parties, but don't look to see the way Nintendo just love themselves, and Just Dance. Thats why i think the whole third parties going to support the WIIU is BS. And i don't hate nintendo, but don't fuck with the third parties. I love third parties. They my homies.

deBlob sold very well.  deBlob 2 failed on everything.   The Conduit went up against Call of Duty and got overshadowed by the 10 ton gorilla.  It still made them profits and met their target expectations.

But what third party has ever even come close to mario kart. Third parties that work for nintendo just feel ripped off. Why is it that if they make a game for Nintendo, they just can't fork over some cash and advertise for them. When MS practically Bends over for activision and Sony does the same for EA and tons of other third parties. I guarantee you, that the conduit would have sold better if Nintendo just stepped up, and said "You know what, these guys are taking a risk for us, we gotta have thier back. Lets give them some commercials, and make sure they do well *better than they did*, even in the face of defeat." And don't even get me started on silent hill.

Just shut up and stop bullshitting.

The only 3rd party games I've ever seen advertised for the Wii are ones where Nintendo has stepped in with marketing.  Monster Hunter 3 is a perfect example of this.  Anyway, I don't at all get this 'Nintendo don't do anything for 3rd parties' talk.  IMO Nintendo has done as much for 3rd parties as either Sony or Microsoft, in many respects they have done more.  Here are some examples:

 

Localising 3rd party games to other markets - Examples include Trauma Centre and Inazuma Eleven for Europe, Prof Layton and Samurai Warriors 3 for the West, Epic Mickey and Goldeneye for Japan, etc

Advertising the hell out of 3rd party games - As I stated earlier, MH3 is a good example.  DQIX is another.

Letting Capcom design the CCPro - Has Sony or Microsoft done something like this?  I don't know

Miyamoto designing a minigame for SW3 - Again has Sony or Microsoft done this?

Bundles with 3rd party games - Sony and MS also do this.  But I still don't see know Nintendo 'rip off' 3rd parties, in particular the ones that work with Nintendo

Actually making games for 3rd parties - Genius Sonority made DQS for Square-Enix, same with Brownie Brown making London Life for Level-5

Letting 3rd parties use Nintendo IPs - Used not as much as last gen, but still frequently.  Pretty much guarentees 3rd parties will make a large profit.  Recent example is Square-Enix with Mario Sports.

Going to 3rd parties to develop games - Pilotwings Resort is a good recent example, so is OoT 3D.  I don't see how letting a 3rd party develop a remake of the highest rated and arguably the best game of all time is 'ripping them off'.

Sending 1st party developers to assisting in the development of 3rd party games - Retro Studies helping with the development of Red Steel 2 is the 1st example that comes to mind.  However, despite your wild claims about the Conduit, I'm pretty sure Nintendo helped with the online of the game, in particular the Wii Speak element.

 

And IMO most importantly...

 

Launching a major peripheral with entirely 3rd party games at launch - Wii Motion Plus launch with only 3rd party games (Grande Slam Tennis and Tiger Woods I think), the 1st Nintendo game wasn't launch until a month later.  Sony and MS didn't do this with Move and Kinect respectively, both launched with some 1st party games.  I really don't see how this 'rips off' 3rd parties as you believe.