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DavidKell on 23 April 2014
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RolStoppable said:
Mythmaker1 said:

The difference between the question in the thread title and the examples in the OP is that, unlike those examples, there's an actual basis for third-parties to avoid Nintendo. 

They have a history (albeit one that, depending on your perspective, is in the past) of being a bad partner, their tendency to make radical changes to their hardware makes them an unreliable platform, and from a purely financial perspective their platforms offer less potential return for third-parties.

Two simple tasks for you:

1) The PS3 made programming hard and drove up development costs, its sales pace was far below expectations which in turn crippled third party software sales to the point that in the year after the PS3 launch almost every big third party publisher posted losses and had to close studios. During the same timeframe, the PS3 sold the lowest amount of third party software between itself, the 360 and the Wii. Explain how the PS3 could end up with the best third party support in the long run.

2) The 3DS had built over a ten million lead in installed base over the PSV in Japan and Monster Hunter was very successful on Nintendo's handheld. Explain why God Eater 2 skipped the 3DS.

With sony my guess would be sony must have convinced them somehow but you also have to take into consideration the HD Twins (xbox 360 and PS3)

design for two consoles at the same time. Also i think alot of companies wanted to push graphics.

But the whole aregument for nintendo bias could also be used against the psp vita (why won't they make game for it)

Actaully point two could point against bias against PSP Vita as well Monster Hunter made it big on the PSP but went to the 3DS.

The point I am trying to make is there is of course there is bias in the market but there is lots of other factors as well example monyhat, lack of sales of consoles,studies that say such and such company is going to fail, target markets ect.

There is so many different factors involved that to point to bias alone just doesn't make since.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Can be also a factor.