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baloofarsan on 24 August 2014
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Teeqoz said:
baloofarsan said:

To get to an attach ratio at the end of the generation of ten games sold per console, there should at least be twice as many to choose from as each gamer is different.

Let's see if Nintendo can dig up enough First Party games:

Mario Kart, Mario 2D, Mario 3D, Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bros, Mario Party, Donkey Kong, Animal Crossing, Paper Mario, WarioWare, Kirby, Yoshi, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Pikmin, Mario Golf, Fire Emblem, Pilotwings, Starfox, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon, Nintendogs, Kid Icarus, Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, Mario Strikers, Art Academy, Style Savvy, Wii Party...

 ...and even more! That's almost 30 games just there! 

 

Now let's look at Sony:

Gran Turismo, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Resistance, MotorStorm, Killzone, inFAMOUS, God of War, Ratchet & Clank.

 

Now let's look at MS:

Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza!

 

Conclusion! Nintendo is pushing away Third Party because they have too much First Party!

The attachment ratio right now is 5.5  http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/


wow. I'm amazed that a single person can be that heavily biased.


The point I did not succeed in doing, I was not trying very hard really, was that:

Nintendo, much like Disney in the eighties, is so heavily relying on their iconic franchises that they fail to see what Third Party can contribute with. They flood their systems with franchise games that their fans crave. Problem is that not everyone is a nintendo fan.

Coming into the eight generation Nintendo tried to make a deal with EA. Despite having the successful Wii/DS generation behind them, someone at Nintendo sensed that they could not succeed again whitout Third Party developers. We do not know what happened - my guess is that Nintendo failed to see what EA could contribute with. They valued their own IPs to much to recognize EA expertise in games for a mature audience.

Well here we are, they will try to get to the mature audience themself but the only way that they know how to do it is to throw in Zelda costumes in Bayonetta, Zelda costumes in Warriors, Zelda chickens in Devil's Third, colourful squids in Quake MP (could have been Mario).