| JWeinCom said: Ugh. Too tired for a full response but here's my brief thoughts. Nintendo is not Microsoft. They are not Sony. They are not a large company who can afford to take losses for several years on their gaming division. They are not a company that can rely on third party sales to carry them. They're a company that needs to make money basically every year, and the way they make most of their money off of their own software. Look at how their software sells relative to how their hardware sells, and then look at the same thing for Sony and MS. If Nintendo wanted to do what third parties ask, the DS would have likely had one screen and no touch. The Wii would have been more powerful with the pro controller as its standard. The Wii U would be a console that would be just like the XBone or PS4 because that makes life easier for developers. And what benefit would there be for Nintendo? Fans of the other fans are going to suddenly switch sides because Nintendo has the multiplatform games that they can already get from a company they like better? Probably not. If Nintendo was to follow third party leads, then you'd get a console that's made with Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, and Madden in mind. You'd get a quote unqoute hardcore gamer machine, which wouldn't make sense for Nintendo who doesn't make quote unquote hardcore games. Sony fans and MS fans who do buy a Wii or a Wii U are doing so as a secondary system anyway. Nintendo is going to live or die based on their first party stuff. That's their advantage, and that's what has to take priority, even if that costs them with their parties. There are of course, places where they could compromise, but the number one objective is how to make Nintendo's games stand out. |
The R&D money put into the tablet could've been used to up the actual hardware. Nintendo took a bet that the casual market would come back and they misfired. All console manufacturers are going to profit early on their tech this gen, Nintendo just never consulted with third parties. There is no excuse this generation...at all. Nintendo aimed to chase a closing market generation with the Wii U hardware-wise and misfired again, because third parties were already moving on. They should've kept in contact while developing their console the whole time. The guy is right, its like they create the console in an isolated matter and then say "oh yeah, so we made our console, put a game on it." If it doesn't meet the specifications third parties need they wont put the game on their console. Nintendo had the specifications needed to make FPS on the N64 and PC devs proudly put Duke Nukem & Doom and other games on the 64 before Goldeneye was ever launched.
