What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

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Vena said:

KingdomHeartsFan said:

I dont think they should either, but knowing Nintendo they will. 

No, I meant they shouldn't adopt x86. It doesn't make sense for them to do so, when they adopt the unified platform they will be the biggest developer for their console(s) by a wide, wide margin. They have every incentive to support their own tool sets which are based in RISC not CISC, and as such they'll be better off with ARM or PPC.

There is no reason for them to bend over for western developers who may or may not even do anything to support Nintendo or want exorbinant amounts of concessions. They'd get better returns on just investing in new western studios, not conforming to burned bridges like Ubi or EA or Acti.

Homogenization of their console would not help them.

Nintendo hurt their chances with third parties by mostly ignoring them for their own philosophies. Nintendo used to rule over them when they barely had any competition in the 90's and they had no choice but to bend over to Nintendo since they had the mass marketshare. Ubisoft, Epic and EA were all begging console manufacturers to make sure they had 8GB of ram and updated specs so they could run the higher end games they plan on making. Of course Nintendo had their own plans and paid the piper for it. Third parties do not need to answer to anyone. The manufacturers answer to them.