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

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RolStoppable said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Deeds said:

It's really simple. It's stupid to give money to a company (third party dev) that will also put their product on a competitor's console. Nintendo is only interested in third party games that are negotiated to be exclusive.

There aren't really enough 3rd party games they can get to be exclusives though, besides that the big ones that would really be worth it would usually cost way way too much.

What if... they didn't need to pay to get multiplats though? If they made a console that was really easy to port to then they would get plenty of multiplats. Even if multiplats haven't sold well on Nintendo consoles so far, if porting games was easy and cheap enough then publishers would do it because they would still be able to make profit even with the current low 3rd party sales. Failing that they don't have much choice but to pay for multiplats, unless they can prove they can sell and be profitable on their consoles anyway.

But if they were to get more multiplats then they would sell more consoles, and more people would buy the multiplats on Nintendo consoles. Then leading to more interest from 3rd party publishers.

The Wii U was easy enough to port to and we've seen how that turned out. The majority of 360/PS3 multiplats for 2013 didn't release on the Wii U and their respective publishers often never had any intentions to release them to begin with (meaning that Wii U sales were irrelevant).

It's also a fallacy to believe that more multiplats would make Nintendo consoles sell more. We can look back at history, the GC clearly outpaced the overall game library size of the N64 thanks to its bigger amount of multiplatform games, but it still sold considerably less in its lifetime. Now factor in that in this day and age all major multiplatform games are tailored (content, marketing) to an audience that wouldn't even consider to buy a Nintendo console, then it becomes apparent that getting those games on their console wouldn't Nintendo do much good at all. It's the opposite actually, because the requirements to get those games would compromise the things that people want from a Nintendo system; so Nintendo doesn't gain anything from those games because the audience of said games doesn't wand a Nintendo console and at the same time Nintendo loses out on people who would be willing to buy a Nintendo console, but now aren't because the actual product is a piece of trash.

So basically Nintendo is screwed either way they go at current date. And can only be saved by luck of the consumer enviroment.