Nintendo will never be "third party friendly"

[SanAndreasX]

zippy said:

SanAndreasX said:
Personally, I wish Microsoft and Sony would stop kissing the asses of third party prima donnas like EA and Ubisoft as much as they do.

This, i believe that 3rd parties are gaing too much of a foothold in the industry and Sony/ Microsoft are becoming their bitches. Look at EA, they threw a hissy fit with Nintendo over their refusal to let them control their online infrastructure. If Nintendo can get by without them, good for them.

EA has a long history of pitching bitch-fits. They tried to bully Nintendo back in the 8-bit era and failed miserably. Then they successfully bullied their way onto the Sega Genesis extracting special treatment from Sega. I remember reading about that in Game Informer some time back.

Apparently, Sega had a "kill switch" that, if they'd used it at CES, would have caused EA's unlicensed Genesis games to fail publicly. This was by EA's own admission, not Sega's. It's a pity they caved in to EA and didn't use whatever kill-switch they had. They could have chased EA away for good with that kind of embarrassment. :)