S.T.A.G.E. on 13 January 2014
| sunK1D said: It was never about ease of development on the Wii U. It's simple business 101. Ever since Sony and then MS came into the picture, third-party sales have tanked on Nintendo "consoles." Why develop a game for a Nintendo console when chances are you won't even make your investment back? Handheld market is a different story seeing as Nintendo has no competition there. Vita? please, Sony needs to do a better job there if they want to compete with Nintendo. Third-party will sell on the 3DS because there isn't an alternative at the moment unlike the console market. People like to talk about the 3DS/Wii U mutually but their markets dynamic is very different. What works for the 3DS will not work for the Wii U due to competition. |
Its not just that. Nintendo has not always made life easy for third party even during the NES and SNES era. Nintendo deals with third party like they look down upon them but at the same time need their games and when they say jump, third party jump. When Sony entered the gaming industry not only did they offer a fresh approach to parner relations but they also brought a wider audience who they managed to stabalize. Sony alone is the reason why the gaming industry is 100+ million stronger than it was before them. Microsoft expanded that further helping bring PC gamers to consoles.
