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Soundwave on 19 November 2013
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Frequency said:
Soundwave said:
Frequency said:
It isnt that microsoft and sony have third party support, more that third parties have customers support on microsoft and sony consoles.

Nintendo fans are inherantly stubborn when it comes to non-nintendo games and are perfectly willing to sit by and watch the good ship wiiu sink.

The highest rated launch games for wiiu were all third party, it had a great chance to repair charred bridges and get third party on board to make a more broadly appealing lineup, but the customers just arent there, and so third parties got up and left.


There's not really any incentive for Call of Duty players (for example) to switch to the Wii U though, so that was the problem there. 

I think Nintendo drank the Kool-Aid that if they had multiplats they could grab some of that Sony/MS demo, but that notion was about 2-3 years too late by 2012. 

They should have instead invested in some Western development studios to help them out (or at least financed some without buying a stake, ala Platinum Games and Next Level Games). I think they need to acknowledge now that basically third parties aren't going to help them, and even when they can no third party can afford to stick their neck out for Nintendo any more unless its for the 3DS in Japan. 

Any money nintendo spends on projectd that are not their own is wasted money, peopoe just wont buy it in meaningful enough numbers.

Unless it has nintendo on the box and one of their core franchise characters slapped in, in some way or another, you'll at best tempt a few of the less dedicated fanbase, bored with waiting on their holy grain, to bite.

You may be right. Though some of that may fostered by Nintendo's own impatience. If something isn't a huge hit right away or just a moderate one, they tend to back away. 

Uncharted on the Playstation wasn't a huge hit initially, but over the years you can see how its grown into a brand and how that's also rubbed off a new franchise like Last of Us. 

It's kinda the blessing and curse of having Mario. If you greenlit any game with Mario in it, it's pretty much gaurunteed to make a profit. Even things like Mario Tennis 3DS clear 400-500k worldwide easy, and you gotta figure the development cost on these games isn't that high either, Nintendo's probably printing a nice amount of $$$ every time they slap Mario on the box. 

But its hindered them in that they've become gun shy in trying new ideas and when they do, they don't bother to market them.