Why is it so hard for Nintendo to release games for it's systems?

[Otakumegane]

Michael-5 said:

Otakumegane said:
Nintendo's unwillingness to expand 1st party studios.
Their own quality standards which make them constantly delay games to make em better.
Lack of major 3rd party support. (Though 3DS has PLENTY now, man gotta be loving that.)

Nintendo handhelds have historically been fine. Nintendo consoles on the other hand....yeah. Lots of software droughts.

What they SHOULD do is create a massive back catalog of VC games and the like to keep everyone happy. Classic Nintendo could last someone for a good 2 years. What they WILL do is drip-feed.

This.

I think Nintendo is very picky on who they hire for 1st party studios, and they always keep projects under the direction of the same few people. This will hurt them down the road because people like Miyamoto are in thir 60's and Nintendo has very few new people put put in charge of games.

However the delaying games to ensure quality, I can only see that saving them.

I'm very interesting to see how Nintendo will change with the Wii U. They can only outsource so many games, eventually they are just going to have to buy/make more 1st party studios. I think Retro Studios has been a great asset to Nintendo recently, and Nintendo needs more studios like that.

You know they say that Monolith Soft was purchased so they could make a "Final Fantasy of their own" but I'm more inclined to believe that by 2007 Iwata realized that no matter how well the Wii performed they weren't getting any major Square Enix support so he just threw his hands up and said "screw this I'm buying a studio".

And they got a pretty decent one. They should really do that with another talented but little known Western Studio and try to grow them.