What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

[Mnementh]

teigaga said:

Mnementh said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Third party is the problem. Most people follow the third party.

Nintendo will not thrive on third-party, regardless what they do. EA announced to support WiiU big time - and what happened? WiiU got pretty good support from Activision and Ubisoft at the start - and what happened? No, getting third-party with their usual multiplats on board is no solution (at least not alone). Special cooperations like Hyrule Warriors proved to be much more successful.

Context. No one wanted to play those 3rd party games on the Wii U when the system added nothing of percieved value (A map on the Gamepad is not percieved value), infact in same cases performance were reportedly worse on Wii U.  Again the hardware was at fault.

Paying attention to history you'll see that Nintendo home consoles haver never thrived off 1st party alone. That is a myth constantly being perpetuated by Nintendo fans for some strange reason. They make profit but the  closest we have to that was the wii which had TONS of third party support, but mostly sold of off wii sports, Wii fit and MK wii.

I didn't say first party alone is the solution. but typical third-party multiplats will not be bought on Nintendo-systems and Nintendo-systems don't sell only on typical third-party multiplats. Look at WiiU-launch and PS4 launch in comparison. They had both a lot of typical multiplats. but WiiU didn't sold while PS4 sells. The difference isn't performance, do you think people bought PS4 to play the games they could play on their PS3 with some more pixels? It is more than that. People buy PS4 usually on the promise of future greatness. Many also on this forum refer to their expectations of future titles to justify the purchase. Nintendo doesn't offer this promise. That's the difference and a main reason why multiplats alone don't work.

I never said Nintendo should rely only on first-party. I only said multiplats don't work, at least alone. This doesn't mean Nintendo should avoid getting multiplats. But it shouldn't be the focus. In my post I offered a coopoeration as example, but there is much more. You can look at 3DS, it has third-party support, but only a few multiplats. And that works.