The Nintendo Third Party Dilemma: How we got here and why (from Gaf)

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Mr Khan said:

bananaking21 said:

Mr Khan said:
These are the same hackneyed arguments given a coating of excessive verbosity. There is nothing new here.

Post N64, Nintendo's share of the blame drops precipitously. Now the blame is almost entirely on third parties.

could you explain why the blame is entirely on third parties?

Because the entire post N64 history has been one long move on Nintendo's part to accomodate them, with the third parties constantly shifting the goal posts in response. Move to disc media wasn't enough, cheap, easy-to-develop-for hardware wasn't enough, now easy to port to hardware isn't enough.

Fact of the matter is Nintendo could have made the PS4, just as it is, and still get neglected. Third parties simply don't want to work with them, for their own various, severely petty reasons.

But were they not adding problems while they were making improvements in the process? A step forward and then another back? I'm referring to the Wii and Wii U with respect to power and how they compare to their counterparts in the respective generations. Bethesda seems uninterested in the Wii U largely because of the gulf between it and the other consoles (At least that's my interpretation). But, I suppose one could argue that they would simply work with the LCD and port games from the Wii U to the other consoles, giving every console a version of the game (but I realize that's not an option for them, and it seems for good reason too).