| PDF said: I didn't know going third party meant failure, someone should tell Activision and EA that they are failures. If Nintendo goes 3rd party it would be a massive success as one. The real difference is the change in business strategy and a lot less with them hoping they fail. They want to see Nintendo games sell well, and they want nintendo to be around for a long time. |
Coming from someone with the name "Playstation Defense Force", you'll forgive me for any comments possibly seeming disengenuous.
And no, I don't think that's what most of these people are thinking. I think there is a genuine glee in the immature, nerdy hearts of many of these gamers who "grew up" with Xbox or Playstation, in the thought of the "old guard" Nintendo finally "going down". Many of these same idiots have been hoping for this for years. Yes, for some of them it's because they want to be able to play Nintendo games on their console of choice. But for others, it's simply wanting to dance on Nintendo's grave, because they're fucking nerds with nothing better to do.
Also, yes, it absolutely would be a massive failure for THE most influencial developer and biggest console maker in gaming history, to fall by the wayside so much that they have to make games for OTHER people's consoles. While I was a Nintendo gamer, it was a very dark and sad day when Sega announced they were going 3rd party. Is it cool that I can play Sega franchises on a Nintendo console now? Sure. But is it worth the cost of Sega losing their dignity and having a REAL game developer/console maker on the market other than Nintendo? No. Not at all. Would you say that Sega is better off as a 3rd party dev? I wouldn't. I'd say that all their properties have gone sharply downhill since they did so. Where is shit like Ecco the Dolphin, or Shinobi, or Golden Axe, Out Run, or Streets of Rage, or Vectorman, or Nights, or Panzer Dragoon, Clockwork Night, Bug, you name it? Where is creative shit like Fighters Megamix and Shenmue and Chakan the Forever Man, or Comix Zone, or Ristar? Most of what Sega does now are (largely poor) Sonic games. They've had varying success outside of that.
The same thing would happen to Nintendo if they went third party. All people would get would be Mario, Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Zelda. MAYBE Smash Bros. No more Kirby, no more Fire Emlem, or Paper Mario, or F-Zero, or Wave Race, or Pikmin, etc. etc. etc.
To be honest, even though they were incompetant as hell on the business side, I even miss Atari as a console maker. The days when the three big console makers were Atari, Nintendo and Sega....those were good times. Nintendo is all that is left. Everything else is huge corporations that just happen to have video game divisions. Nintendo is the ONLY purely game creator company left. Do I want to see that end? Fuck no. So sorry, the fanboy fantasies and delusions of Nintendo "pulling a Sega" are going to remain just that. Nintendo will survive, and thrive. They always have.
