Kresnik said:
Bolded are second party, not third party. Nintendo funded LEGO City Undercover, and I don't know the logistics of their Sonic deal but if it's anything like their Bayonetta deal, then they've also funded the development of those games. I never saw any of the Resident Evil promotion in Europe by the way, certainly there was none in the UK. So I'll have to take your word for that. I also don't think ZombiU is really a good example of anything since it was an exclusive. If the message they wanted to send out is "make your game exclusive to our platform and we'll do some marketing for it!" then they're going to have their work cut out. Regarding the rest of them - there's a few fair ones in there. I think Bravely Default; Layton & Ninja Gaiden just go to show that Nintendo has good relationships with Japanese third parties, and I wouldn't argue that. 3DS gets a lot of support. I was mostly talking from a WiiU point of view, though. Again, I didn't see any WiiU advertising for Skylanders or Just Dance in the UK but I'm aware of the bundles, so that's something.
Why not? I would say that none of the Japanese third parties had any interest in developing for the Xbox 360 at the start of the generation (I'm talking Square Enix; Capcom; Konami; Namco Bandai etc.) after they'd had a generation of working across mostly PS2 & somewhat on Gamecube as well. So Microsoft provided every incentive they could to get Final Fantasy; Tales; Resident Evil etc. on the 360. Even went after a few exclusives (i.e. Star Ocean). Sure, not all of them worked out - Tales reverted back to PS3 exclusivity in the end, but some of them did work out in the long term. Final Fantasy; Metal Gear Solid & Resident Evil are now firmly multi-platform franchises going forward. And that was the point. A "short-term" sacrifice for a longer-term gain. |
What I was trying to point out that "Nintendo's attitude towards third parties seems to be "if you want to put your games on our platform, that's great" and leave it at that" is simply not true with the evidence i provided. They have done things for 3rd party partners - sure they could do a lot more - but it is a start.
@ Bold
Simply - in this CASE there was no benefit at all promoting the game. The game had been out on other platform months ahead and the game was going to fail commercially - so it was smart to not promote the game - Nintendo has nothing to gain (long term or shor term) as EA position has been made clear about their support on the Wii U months befor the release of need for speed most wanted u:
"Having said that, I wouldn’t say that we see much correlation between the results that Nintendo have just shown with the console debut of the Wii U and what we see coming. We see a pretty sharp distinction and unfortunately I’m unable to go any further than that. Ours is an industry where a lot of devices come in and represent themselves as the next generation or the next generation after that. You know in many ways, we would argue that the gen— what we’re describing as “Gen 4*”, is yet to come — and it’s that we’re excited about, and that’s what we’re investing in, and frankly we’ve been quite consistent with that for some time, recognising the frustration our inability to articulate precisely why, causes for you. "
Oh here is the UK commercial for Revelations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9PcS4oOHw
Australian commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RQg54FUQVg
