We Need Nintendo Back in Our Living Rooms

[NightDragon83]

Nintendo's third party conundrum is a catch-22 for alot of reasons.

First of all, every gen Nintendo makes it abundantly clear that their consoles are all about Nintendo games, and 3rd parties come second. This is all well and good, but as a result of this practice they refuse to share the spotlight with 3rd party developers and publishers and do things such as promote certain AAA titles as the "definitive" version on their console, something that both Sony and M$ have both been doing for well over a decade now.

For example... any time you see a TV commercial for a major 3rd party release like GTA, COD, Assassin's Creed, Madden, FIFA, whatever, it's almost always followed at the end with a promo for the Xbox or PlayStation brands (i.e. "preorder now for so-and-so console"). And commercials for 3rd party exclusives focus even more on their respective console.

Now ask yourself this question... when was the last time you saw a commercial for a major 3rd party release that was immediately followed with a promo for a Nintendo console? Exactly.

The other half of the catch-22 problem is that Nintendo's main audience just doesn't care that much about these types of games. Just look at COD on the Wii U for example... the biggest selling franchise year after year, and it all BLOPSII managed was an absolutely pathetic 200k sales WW according to this site, and COD Ghosts didn't even register yet on the charts!