| Darwinianevolution said: The problem with that is 3rd parties are very unstable on Nintendo consoles. If power was the only issue for them, the WiiU would have received more ports and games that came for the PS360. They could have done more old ports (Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy XIII, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Street Fighter 4 Ultra, Battlefield 4, the whole ME trilogy, The Walking Dead, Skyrim, Fallout 3...) and brought crossgenerational games, like GTA5 and Destiny. Instead, the support was very limited, with EA downright boycotting Nintendo because of Origin. Imagine the next generation, Nintendo deals with 3rd parties and designs its console with their ideas in mind, and months after the release they decide that it's not worth develope multiplats for the thing, and jump the ship once again. Most of the main eastern companies (Sega, Capcom, Namco-Bandai, Level 5...) keep supporting both home console and handheld, but the ones that move the most units (Ubisoft, EA, Activision) don't want to expand its developing costs. Nintendo should expand, so it becomes able to substain both home console and handheld with no problems. Open more western and eastern studios, create more new IPs and spinoffs, help new companies create unique and risquy games (Bayoneta 2 being the perfect example), support even more the indie ambit (maybe even helping some of them to get a phisical release in handhelds), advertise more the online features... |
I've said that for years but it never happens. They shoudl have kept Rare and stocked it up with new talent. The IPS RARE had would have had better treatment that Micrososft gave them.
So the next best thing they can do is try to provide something for 3rd parties that woudl be easy to port and looked on part as PS5/nextbox and would require only small sales to profit. I think you would also see those Nintendo guys who buy multiple consoles for 3rd party games, not buy two consoles and sales would increase. This also assume that the Nintendo system gets a onpar version (or close to).
