Nintendo's Conflicting Hardware and Software Philosophies

[Scisca]

RolStoppable said:

Scisca said:

If that is true, then they are just plain stupid. I knew 3rd parties were going to piss on Wii U the moment I saw it. I couldn't stand Reggie talking crap about "being the most powerful on the market", that now "3rd parties have the hardware to work with". As if console gaming was supposed to stop in that moment in time and PS4/XO were never to be released.

To me Nintendo didn't give a damn about 3rd parties. They just wanted to release another cheap console with a gimmick to cover up for it, so that they can earn sick cash out of it without having to do the normal dirty work that the competition has to go through. You can tell they didn't care about 3rd parties when they said that low electricy consumption was more important for them than better performance. They were sure they had a winner on their hands from the start, now matter what. Somehow almost everyone outside of Nintendo thought and still thinks differently...

Your first paragraph would only be a reason to shun Nintendo if third parties were blatant Sony and Microsoft fanboys.

If Nintendo wanted to release a cheap console, then why was the Wii U expensive despite being sold at a loss? You don't earn money by selling at a loss. The Gamepad originally had Circle Pads instead of analog sticks. Nintendo added sticks that also worked as buttons due to the wishes of third parties. But ultimately third parties made it pretty clear that they don't care about Nintendo by not putting the majority of their games on the Wii U, despite an easy porting process. Those decisions were made before the Wii U launched, so actual Wii U sales numbers had nothing to do with it.

Why? When I saw Wii U it was obvious to me that they'll ignore Wii U and not for a single moment did I believe that Wii U is gonna get the support Reggie was bullshitting about. It had everything going against it and nothing going for it. Just one more time Nintendo decided to stay a gen behind - such a decision has its consequences. Don't put the blame on 3rd parties for Nintendo's decisions.

Why is the console expensive? Ask Nintendo why they did such a lousy job. It's barely more powerful than a PS3 and yet is over twice as expensive to manufacture. They messed up. It shouldn't cost more than $249 day 1.

The analog sticks are probably the only change made for the third parties (and it's a bloody good one!), but Wii U already got its fair share of CoDs, ACs, Darksiders, Zombi Us, Batmans and Splinter Cells and Watchdogs to more than justify this one change. And it's not a proof of Nintendo making a 3rd party friendly console, but rather showing just how out of touch with the gaming reality they were while designing it. They had to be reminded of what true analogs should work like.

The actual sales of 3rd party games have all to do with what you have now and why you won't be getting more ports for it. There is no market and there never will be any, cause the console is too underpowered and it's all Nintendo's fault. 3rd parties aren't the ones who should risk their money in order to make a system work. Neither in the case of Wii U, nor Vita.

The Wii U is as anti-3rd party as it gets. Porting games is totally pointless, as they will be massively inferior and nobody will be willing to pick them up over a PS4One version. The only thing that can have any sense is making exclusive games, but then you take a look at the instal base and throw that idea out of the window as soon as possible. It's not 3rd parties fault. Nintendo is responsible for this situation, nobody else.