Should Nintendo create more studios?

[burninmylight]

DucksUnlimited said:

burninmylight said:

DucksUnlimited said:
Can't believe so many people are saying yes. Nintendo has a lot of talented first party studios. Nintendo just rushed the Wii U and underestimated development time. That's why we have the drought that we do.

So many people seem to have this mentality of "the more first party games the better." From a business perspective it's simply not the case. Nintendo has enough studios for several big first party releases a year. These releases already have to compete with third party games. Making Nintendo's first party offerings compete with each other in addition to third parties is not a good idea.

What about the droughts from the 3DS, the Wii, the DS, and the N64? This is not to diss Nintendo or the Wii U, it's more or less to say that anyone who's been gaming since the Clinton administration should expect an early drought with every single console ever.

I'm of the belief that yes, the more first party games, the better. Nintendo should stop worrying about trying to please overly fickle, sensitive and diva third parties and let the haughty ones worry about themselves. They'll come around regardless once they see a console flying off the shelves and that there's a market for their games, which is what Nintendo needs to help create.

Well, the Wii flew off the shelves, yet its third party support was still by far the worst of the big 3. the idea that they'll come around regardless isn't really true. The fact of the matter is that most people probably buy consoles mainly for third party games. First party games for the average consumer are there more as a way to help choose which console. But that doesn't help much if the console doesn't have much in the way of third party games. That's a huge part of why the N64 and Gamecube suffered. Introducing a large influx of first party studios is only going to drive out what remaining third party suport they have.

I wouldn't say the worst by far. The Wii got plenty of third party support, just not the kinds of games you, I and most others on this site typically would play (but I fully acknowledge what you mean and I agree).

But you have to go back and read the part I underlined. Nintendo has to help create the market for these kinds of games, because third parties sure as hell haven't and don't feel any obligation to do so. I said in another post that it needs to take a "rising tide" strategy of getting gamers on board in the first place by tapping into those markets itself, then third party publishers can come in and keep the momentum going when they see that the market is there. If I'm an outside publisher, I'd rather compete with Nintendo for a crowd that exists than trying to sell a game to one that doesn't. The Wii proved it had a market for third party platformers, racers and mini-game fests, despite Nintendo providing the creme of the crop for every single one of those genres (SMG, Mario Kart, WarioWare, Wii Play, and so on).