Should Nintendo buy third party support?

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NJ5 said:

The real question is, why don't 3rd parties get a clue and just start making more good Wii games? Don't they have market analysts who are supposed to see the potential for profit there?

The Wii is selling just fine as it is, and it's making very good profit for Nintendo, so I don't see why Nintendo should spend money to educate 3rd parties. I say let them sort it out by themselves.

 

Oh but they do. PS3 domination starts at launch, starts at early 2007, starts from next pricecut, starts at christmas 2007, starts at MGS, starts at 2008, starts when BD wins, starts at 2009... Great analysists. @Topic: Nintendo doesn't need to buy it. They would have needed to buy them in 2005, when a lot of the main franchises got their start for development. Since obviously the idea was to get the main series of 3rd parties main franchises. Even if Nintendo would buy exclusivity to these games, we'd propably see them on the Wii at sometime close to the end of this gen. Which is going to happen anyway. Publishers aren't going to rush (hopefully) the next sequel of their main series as fast as possible to kill the sales of the latest version because it made only a small profit/loss. So, you either make a port or a spinoff. And i like to remind that spinoffs doesn't mean the game would be bad. For example, one Donkey Kong spinoff is considered one of the best series in the world, RE spinoff on the Wii is IMO the best game in the series, from Squares games i liked the most from sequel to FF spinoff, (one of) the best selling games last gen is GTA spinoff, Xbots like to name Halo wars to one of anticipated games on 360... The list could be endless. Anyway, Nintendo does do something to "buy" 3rd party support, they often hire some 3rd party to develope a game for them.