So, Nintendo Is The Only Gaming Company that Can Survive With No Third Party Support? If Not Who Else? (If each Company Had Their Own HW i mean)

[Dunban67]

curl-6 said:

Dunban67 said:

curl-6 said:

NintendoPie said:
You consider Wii U to be "surviving"?

It's still selling, therefore it is surviving.

If merely selling is surviving then all of them could "survive". - However, Wii u type sales is not viable for any of the 3 console makers including Nintendo- Yes they have the cash and assets to survive as a company despite the Wii u but they could not survive long term if Wii u type sales is all they accomplished going forward into future generations - eventually investors would just say why bother even before they ran out of money - Nintendo def has the strongest 1st party as a whole but they have in no way proved they are a viable company w out 3rd party help

Well, I did say "survive", not "thrive". For the moment, Nintendo and the Wii U are afloat and in no immediate danger of destruction.

And technically, didn't Wii sell almost entirely on its first party hits too?

The Wii had far more 3rd party support than Wii u- plus if only 2 shovelware games sold for each one released that would have equated to a few million sales alone (: Seriously they must have sold a ton via shovelware due to the shear numbers of them Yes Nintendo could survive more than 1 Wii u type situations and if anyone could do it w out 3rd party it would be Nintendo but I don t think they can thrive in the short to intermediate term or survive long term w out 3 rd party support - not unless they ramp up their dev capacity and variety significantly - I think they are too conservative of a company to invest the resources it would take to ramp up production that much