I'll take Zelda And Mario over Call of Duty, Reggie says.

[CladInShadows]

Seece said:

CladInShadows said:

Seece said:

Deeds said:

Seece said:
"Look at it from the standpoint of, what don’t they have? They don’t have our games. They don’t have Mario and Zelda."

And you don't have Sunset and Halo, or Bloodborne and Uncharted ... on top of not having third party!

I don't blame him tho, PR 101.

PR? It doesnt sound like PR. It sounds like he is giving [particularly western] third party devs a scolding, letting them know, "We dont need you." *EDIT* Which is somewhat strange because Nintendo never needed them. Maybe he is frustrated at being asked the same thing over and over.

Sales would suggest WiiU and Nintendo need third parties badly.

The only third party Nintendo needs is third party exclusives. Because Call of Duty sold SOOOO well on the Wii and Wii U.

They need third parties but they also need to change/compete with Microsoft. No this doesn't mean becoming a clone, but having online and changing their image slightly. This will allow those third party games to sell better.

Yep, not disagreeing with you there.  But when it comes down to it, many people have the Wii U as a second console.  Are you going to buy CoD or Assassin's Creed on on your Wii U, or are you going to get it on a much more capable system like the PS4 or the XBone? And minor gamepad functionality is generally not enough to differentiate the versions.  Those multiplats aren't going to sell many consoles.

What Nintendo needs is about 8 or 9 "Bayonetta 2" type games every year. In addition to whatever Nintendo themselves are developing.  Have a ton of GOOD games that you can't get anywhere else.  I know that's pretty unlikely at this point.  But it should have been their quest from the beginning.

As a fan of Nintendo's games, I buy every Nintendo system by default.  But we're a shrinking demographic, evidently.