| KingdomHeartsFan said: Nintendo is not big enough to support a console with their games alone, whats it gonna be one game every 3 months? Where is your evidence that third parties want "exorbiant amounts of concessions" for putting their games on Nintendo consoles? |
Nintendo is more than capable of supporting a singular console but they don't, at current, have a singular console.
They alone are capable of seemingly producing a steady high quality stream of games while still balancing two consoles. What's Ubisoft going to do? Fart out another overhyped game every year? In the time that Activision, EA, and Ubisoft produce one over budgeted game that they more than likely wouldn't even bother porting to a console audience that has been neglected/disregarded by said publishers (this is a real thing), Nintendo will have produced an order of magnitude more games. Nintendo will not ever be able to court the "dudebros" who buy said farted out games either, they already have a home and chasing them with "powerful hardware" is a fool's gambit. They tried power with the GameCube, it had the same exact RISC/PPC architecture as the PS2, it got all the same games as the PS2 while the competition was still a thing, they didn't magically win. Third party games didn't magically sell better.
Where is the evidence over concessions? In the very fact that third party would want Nintendo to entirely change their own hardware development tools from what has suited Nintendo for over two decades, to x86, throwing out two decades of games cataloges and tools that have been built on RISC rule sets. AAA western devs want homogenized hardware across the board because then they don't have to put in any effort in ports, and their titles are immediately available to all audiences. No doubt, too, they would also expect Nintendo to partake in bidding wars for "exclusive content" and whatever other bullshit AAA development has devolved to at this point.
Yamauchi and Iwata both have realized that "power" is not what makes a console. Aside from the PS4 (pending) power has never even been the "winner" in console generations.
