Vena said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
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.
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Stop saying "third parties". Its AAA.
Third parties exist fine and dandy on the WiiU/3DS, they just don't have budgets that can skewer the moon.
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Youre half way there. Third party aaa titles are the issue and third parties made it clear that no one was getting them unless they followed suit with console power.
Third parties support the 3ds because the games are cheaper to develop and the risk is lower but the install base is very high. Nintendo barely has competition and they always thrive off of that just as they did on consoles before the playstation came.
