Nintendo and 3rd Party Development: Solving the Problem

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pokoko said:

AgentZorn said:

pokoko said:
Good post, and I can't really argue with most of what you've said.  Nintendo is fantastic at some things but they're also well behind the curve in others.  From a holistic approach, they would need to improve areas like account management and their online experience besides increasing their investment in other genres if they want to steal away core gamers from Sony and Microsoft.

 

There's a bit of a problem with that, the core gamers probably don't want Nintendo products.

But there are reasons for that, and if there are reasons, then they can potentially do something about it.  Nintendo lost a lot of gamers because they ignored other portions of the market besides platformers.  Now they've said that they want them back.  This discussion is about how they can do that, if they can do that, and if they should even want that.

I don't see why they can't increase the amount of other genres on Nintendo systems, though it won't be easy.  They've been in their own world for such a long time.

Nintendo never had big titles form developers such as EA, Activison, Take Two on its platforms. So basically every consumer who is attached to those brands will likely never choose a Wii over a PS or an Xbox. It's useless trying to "steal" those gamers to begin with.

What Nintendo has to do is creating an alternative library made of different kinds of hardcore games, different to those genres which are more popular on PS and Xbox. This is an objective they are already trying to achieve on 3DS, the should just try to do the same on WiiU by making collaborations and bulding strong reletionships with a selected circle of developers.