Jools Watsham gives reason why he thinks 3rd parties have trouble publishing on Nintendo systems.

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RolStoppable said:

amp316 said:
It's either one of two things:

1) Third party games don't put forth as much effort as they should and that's why they don't sell well.
2) They aren't as talented at making games as Nintendo and it really shows.

You guys take your pick...

The publishers are right. Namco did a very good Tekken game. Konami did a very good Metal Gear game. SEGA put a lot of money into RThief, paid a famous actor to do the marketing in Japan, two famous singers to sing the theme song, a lot of money into anime cutscenes, a very good game for a popular genre. And all thoses game had terrible sales. If you go into any nintendo site, the fans are only talking about nintendo games and about ThirdParty, "well, maybe i'm gonna buy when hits the bargain price", they say. Nintendo released a rithymn game and sold a lot, SEGA with RThief sold...50k. Even with a good game and good marketing. And Tekken and Metal Gear are big franchises. 

I don't believe nintendo will ever go third party because their game will always sell 20 or 30 millions of copies and give money, but that's it, the destiny of nintendo fans is basically play nintendo games and look the sony-microsoft fans playing the super games from third parties. And, like i said, seems they don't care for this, nintendo games are the only things they need. 

For example, we have this Namco-SEGA-Capcom game coming, people are expecting something big and i'm pretty much sure its gonna be some shitty card game or some puzzle. That's what's the TP will do in nintendo hardwares. 

So, i disagree with you. It's does not matter how much effort you put into nintendo consoles, only big-mega-super franchises like Monster Hunter will have good sales. Nintendo fans are closed mind and only cares for Mario, Pokemon and Zelda.

You can keep your Madworld.

I'm going to go play Zelda now.