| Ka-pi96 said: The vastly superior 3rd party developers don't want Nintendo ruining their games. They can't currently compete on Nintendo consoles because the only people that buy them are Nintendo fans. Without growing that audience with 3rd parties Nintendo will just have more flops like the Wii U. |
I'm sorry, but the only reason that only Nintendo fans are buying the Wii U is because third party games are almost universally crap on the system. And it's a pattern that existed with the Wii, too (except that, at least there, there were plenty of third party exclusives also happening). For instance, as with the Wii, all of the CoD games on the Wii U have been lacking in features, unoptimised, and ignored in terms of advertising. Unsurprisingly, when people come to expect third party games on the system to be crap, they don't buy them. Hence why making such a deal is worth doing - it ensures top-quality titles from certain third parties, which addresses an issue with the image the Wii U (and the Wii, and the Gamecube, and the N64) has, and it boosts the sales capabilities of those third parties, at least, on the system.
And which "vastly superior 3rd party developers" have been making games for the Wii U? And which developers connected to the publishers I mentioned (Sega, Capcom, Tecmo Koei, and Namco Bandai) would be described as "vastly superior" to Nintendo's own developers? There's a reason why so many people want Nintendo to make a Mega Man game, a Sonic game, etc. People were highly disappointed with games like Resident Evil 5, Yakuza, etc.
In the meantime, multiple high-profile developers have quite openly embraced Nintendo - Ancel, Itagaki, Kamiya, Naka, Spector, Sakaguchi, for instance. A number of these developers have explicitly gone through, or are going through, Nintendo QA, and haven't had a single word of complaint.
