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pokoko on 27 January 2015
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RolStoppable said:
pokoko said:
I very much agree with the author about third-party developers and publishers being intimidated by the first-party games of Nintendo. After all, the reason Activision refused to put CoD on Xbox is because Halo is such a sales juggernaut.

Yeah.

That has nothing to do with anything. It's like saying Borderlands or Destiny can't be successful because there are already so many big FPS games out there. It's a bullshit excuse, an attempt to rationalize in a way that makes Nintendo look good. If the audience is there, they will buy way more content than Nintendo can produce. That's the real point, that third-parties do not believe the audience on Nintendo home consoles will support anything but platformers and party games.

People really needs to stop believing stuff just because it's what they want to believe. A great man, Sosuke Aizen, once said, "Admiration is the furthest state from understanding.”

Actually, the phrase "Only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems." came from third parties themselves. It's essentially just another way of saying that they can't compete.

That doesn't change that it is a bullshit excuse, but it changes the context. It's third parties' justification for not seriously trying in the first place and then acting like the victim when their games aren't being bought. This is the self-fulfilling prophecy Adelman talked about.

"Only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems," is completely different than, "third-party companies are indeed intimidated by Nintendo’s offerings," which is the statement made by the author of the article in question.  Ubi-soft put Rayman Legends on the Wii U without being intimidated by Mario and it did reasonably well.  Why?  Because the game fits an established audience.  I don't know who said the quote you mentioned ("third parties" is a large and diverse group) but more correct way to say it would be that only Nintendo type games sell on systems like the Wii U.