Why is it hard to believe that third parties are biased against Nintendo?

[fleischr]

I think biases that determine if a game goes on this platform or another can really only proliferate at the indie, self-publishing level.

EA, Ubisoft, Activision, WB and the like are corporations. Any platform they can sell well on, they'll develop for. Even if the development is like pulling teeth.

Within the companies, you probably have biased developers and development leads. But I think most are self-objective enough to port their games to a platform not of their preference if the business case is there (or their boss tells them too).

Whatever 3rd party support Nintendo has now is probably owed to the belief that having 3 console competitors is good for publisher royalties. If you have just one console-maker running the show, publisher royalties could go down as the console market becomes monopolistic.