Real reason big budget 3rd party games are not on Nintendo systems

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amak11 said:

st0pnsw0p said:
Sony and Microsoft don't have to pay a dime for the vast majority of 3rd party games either, save for the exclusive or timed-exclusive content.

I don't think you understand how the game industry works. Sony and MS pay for developers to put their content on their platforms, if you can't see this, i'm quite surprised. This is exactly how it works in cases like Minecraft. Hell even Rockstar has came out and said regarding a Wii U version of GTAV "If Nintendo wants it on their platform, they have to pay for it", implying that Sony and MS both paid their fair share for that.

Uh, no. It doesn't imply anything except Rockstar doesn't think GTA V would sell enough on Wii U to warrant the work and costs involved in making the port. Do you seriously think they would give up the tens of millions of sales they got on PS3 or 360 on the off-chance that they could squeeze a bit more money out of MS or Sony? GTA V made over a billion dollars, so if the game hadn't released on either PS3 or 360, the would have missed their chance to get a significant portion of that money. Those sales are all the incentive MS and Sony need to get 3rd parties on their consoles.

Look at Wii U, on the other hand. If you add up sales the 10 best-selling multiplats on the platfrm, you get just under 3 million. Wii U sales of many multiplats often make up a single-digit percentage of the game's total sales (2% for AC IV, even less for CoD: Ghosts, both of which are games with comparable audience to GTA V's and which came out on the same day on all consoles, something that won't happen with GTA V).