| pokoko said: With current management, unless they hit the hardware lottery again, Nintendo's audience will likely continue to be niche. Despite having the resources, they've shown little serious inclination to invest in a platform that could steal consumers away from Playstation or Xbox. Significant third party support is simply too important to go without if you want to grow market share. Without it, Nintendo consoles lack too many styles and types of games. |
I've described this issue before. After 20 years of being known as not the destination to go to in order to buy the major third party hits, Nintendo would have to make a herculean effort to make third party support worthwhile. Otherwise you get stuck in the "third parties put up half-hearted effort because they believe it won't sell well, it doesn't sell well, third parties give up," cycle. There's no good reason for third parties to expect sales, so they put in little effort when they bother at all, get the natural outcome from that, and stop bothering subsequently.
How do you reverse this cycle? Moneyhat *just* to have the games show up on your platform? It could work, but to little benefit to Nintendo because buyers of Call of Duty or Street Fighter are trained to go elsewhere. Just because Nintendo pays to have them make Call of Duty, and even pays to make sure that Call of Duty has all of the features of the other platforms, how much will it do?
And that's disregarding how opponents could counter-moneyhat, as they've proven full willing to play ball in that matter.
So to make a *difference*, Nintendo would have to moneyhat EXCLUSIVITY for several key franchises across a number of different genres. They'd have to ante up significantly, to guarantee that people who like those games would have to buy a Nintendo console to play them on.
And then we're looking at something that isn't worth the effort, especially as Sony and Microsoft would go that much further to prevent such a thing from happening.
It's a dead end.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
