| Metallicube said: Third parties WANT Nintendo to fail, plain and simple. If Nintendo goes, the standard in the industry goes TREMENDOUSLY lower, and the third parties get a TON more leverage in the industry, as Sony and MS essentially bend to their will (just look at the fiasco behind the Xbone regarding DRM, before MS quickly came to their senses and corrected it). Nintendo has made their share of mistakes, but at the end of the day they are not the biggest problem. The third parties are the problem.. As long as Nintendo is around, their games will always be measured against theirs, and Nintendo being Nintendo (even in the modern era where their quality has begun to slide), their games are generally still miles ahead over the vast majority of third parties. These companies know this, so they are trying to rid themselves of their troublesome competition, by ANY means necessary. Hell, even the phenomenon known as the Wii couldn't sway the third parties. They walked away from free money, or they put out complete garbage on the console, in order to sabatoge it. They would rather see Nintendo gone than make more money off their consoles, if it means helping Nintendo in any way. This may sound like tin foil wearing shit but as someone who has paid close attention to the politics of this industry for over a decade and who has seen the actions of the third parties (as well as the third party supported gaming media and analysts such as Patcher) in relation to Nintendo, this to me is quite obvious.. |
Third parties don't really care one way or another. They want to make money.
Nintendo does get third party support -- Disney Infinite, Just Dance, Sonic, Skylanders, LEGO, etc.
The problem is these aren't the games Nintendo fans want. They want GTA, MGS, BioShock, etc. (the "big guns"). There's a demographic issue there though, Nintendo makes almost exclusively family-friendly games starring cartoony mascot characters ... most of the big third party franchises are violent titles, and I think there is a conflict there.
Third parties feel like Nintendo is making a specialized console more for kids.
If Nintendo had Mario, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Kirby, etc. swapped out for Halo, Uncharted, God of War, and Gran Turismo ... they would get all the dark/violent IPs too.
The problem is Nintendo was too lax in the 90s and early 2000s and basically conceeded the entire core gamer demographic to Sony and MS. They did not capitalize on the success of GoldenEye properly and failed to carry that over to successive generations and that was a huge, huge mistake.
If I'm making Grand Theft Auto, it doesn't matter to me that Mario or Wii Sports sells 10 million+ copies. I got problems of my own, I got deadlines, I got to pay my employees, it's hard enough getting two versions of the same console game running, I'm struggling to deal with high next-gen costs ... figuring out what weird/quirky direction Nintendo is going in and then bending over backwards to accomodate them just isn't in the schedule.
Nintendo just doesn't have carry any weight with third parties making darker/more violent types of games because they don't have any credibility with that audience, so they aren't taken seriously by third parties for those types of games. It's not a personal thing, it's just a business, and Nintendo just hasn't had any huge success with that crowd since GoldenEye, nor have they really even tried all that hard. The Resident Evil experiment on the GameCube largely failed and Capcom's management forced Mikami to bend. No third party wants to be stuck in that situation.
