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oniyide on 30 July 2013
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Otakumegane said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Otakumegane said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Exactly. This is what Happy isnt getting.

For a moment there, Nintendo forgot that hardware design is best served promoting their 1st party titles.

The conflict between Iwata's apparent need to get 3rd parties on board who like standard, relatively unchaging hardware and Nintendo's own visions of having a new hardware revolution for the benefit of their 1st party titles is what's screwing them over right now. 

Sometimes I just wish that Nintendo just focuses on making a console a full 1st party powerhouse. That's what brought 3rd party support to the 3DS eventually.

 


In terms of tactics that makes complete sense, but at the same time third parties never respected the Wii. They saw it as a gimmicky cash grab and went in like wolves. The thing about Nintendo though is they dont realize without major gimmicks their best sales in their heyday was with third parties draped around their first party no different than what Sony and MS are doing today. The difference is Sony added greater multimedia and greater capabilties to the mix, whilst MS a generation later added proper online.

And look what happened to them over the course of the 7th gen. EA and the like missed out of some major profit.

It's a problem on both sides. I mean just look at the 3DS now that Japan really doesn't have a choice anymore (SE still mobiling along). 3rd party software sells pretty damn finely.

Like Ubisoft's success with Just Dance, and SEGA's sonic games, 3rd parties should have been more aware of the Nintendo audience and at the same time, Nintendo should have tried to foster their own audience for 3rd party software, through either making titles that would bring some of that audience, or 3rd party exclusives like the Platinum deal. (though that came as the horrendously the wrong time, and with the wrong company. If anything most 3rd parties will look at 101's numbers and use that to prove that 3rd party doesn't sell.)

Most of what I'm saying is regurgitation at this point though. We've heard it all too many times.

this is wrong, third parties were VERY aware of the audience, just go to any store and look on the shelves and what will you see? dance, fitness, minigames, more dancing and even more damn minigames, it sure as hell wasnt Ninty making all those games. Look at the PS360 section. Wont find barely any of those, and the Kinect and Move sections shoved in some corner. 3rd parties knew EXACTLY what the audience wanted and made games accordingly, problem was some people dont like those and thats what most of the system got.