Nintendo is silent for a reason

[Aielyn]

happydolphin said:

Aielyn said:

I'm not quite clear on how you delineate "hobbyist-aimed game", then. I'd argue that SPM was targetted more at the "core" than Pikmin 3 will be. Note that I'm not saying this of all Paper Mario games, just SPM.

And I don't consider the Nintendo-published third-party games to be part of Nintendo's direct focus, but part of their effort to get third-party support.

Well, Nintendo's involvement in the Bayo thing makes it hard to see it as a purely 3rd party offering, but also a Nintendo offering, above and beyond a Nintendo initiative to get 3rd parties on board.

Platinum Games had partially developed the game, but couldn't find a publisher. Nintendo said "sure, we'll publish it, if you make it a Wii U exclusive". To me, that's Nintendo improving their relationship with third parties.