HappySqurriel on 09 December 2012
| Jumpin said: It always makes me wonder why Nintendo and Nintendo fans and anti-fans make such a big deal about the importance of third parties. In reality, Nintendo can take first place this generation without any significant third party software. Nintendo should not hold back, kick out their heavy guns, expand their operations, and push more heavily to dominate the software market. Nintendo was the number one most successful publisher of RPGs in the world last generation - they should establish themselves as THE RPG brand as Squaresoft & Enix did 15-20 years ago when they buried everyone else between the two of them. Make a Metroid game that makes Mass Effect look silly, make a Xeno-game that exceeds anything that Square has ever done. Take over publishing for all future Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter games. Make a Pokemon MMO and rule the online space. Nintendo needs to be really aggressive, and acquire more publishing rights and depend less on passive tactics to make third parties happy. Another thing, publish and PUSH for the heavy success of those quirky type games that the hardest Nintendo fans love, expand their audiences to the hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions. |
Nintendo probably can't be the dominant platform on the market without third party support, but (at this point in time) they can attract a massive userbase and be amazingly profitable regardless of what third party publishers do. To put numbers to it, Nintendo sold roughly 2/3 as much software for the DS and Wii combined as Sony, Microsoft and all third party publishers sold for the PSP, PS3 and XBox 360 combined.
