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

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Vena said:

Mummelmann said:

Building a sustained relationship with developers and publishers is impossible if you're unwilling to compromise and adapt; you cannot expect the majority of developers to customize their efforts around a minority that refuses to adapt to market movements.

AAA is in the minority and a dying breed, their big-hit-titles are all sliding down the slopes after so much milking. They make financially ruinous games, sink millions of dollars into projects from which they expect unrealistic returns, kill off any IPs with only marginal success, and breed a culture of hype and pre-order bullshit.

AA and Indie is the majority of developers and, if anyone bothered to ever look, are usually on good terms with Nintendo and Nintendo does plenty to support their developments and games. The N3DS is in part built to support one of the major platforms for indie game development and mobile development: Unity. The OG3DS cannot support it and, as such, the cost of indie games on the 3DS is considerably higher and harder to achieve.

The stink here isn't about "the majority" its about shiny AAA.

Nintendo ran the gaming world when games were on par with what indy titles are putting out today. They like humble people whom realize their dominance. Nintendo is not a humble company. They have an my way or the highway attitude, which is why they lost third party gen after gen. The Sony gained third party from the ignorance Sega and Nintendo displayed towards third party or from how they were run internally. Read up on it.