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Materia-Blade on 20 March 2015
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DanneSandin said:
Materia-Blade said:

Nintendo made sure that gamecube was easy to develop for. Lack of dev kits is a problem but it's very short term. licensing fees being a little higher don't equal disrespect, especially with nintendo being mainly a gaming company.

"Hiroshi Imanishi said they are not approaching third parties to make games for GameCube. Instead, they expect third parties to come to them once the GameCube starts growing their install base."

That's exactly what the third parties have to do. IT IS THEIR JOB.

Also,don't mistake what MS did with respect, they were moneyhatting everywhere trying t jumpstart the xbox.

Short term? They had a shortage 6 months in to the GC life! Getting a dev kit them would mean it would take you maybe a year to get out your first game for the console... The licensing fee shows that Nintendo doesn't really care about 3rd party support since their competitors had lower fees; had Nintendo really cared they would have lowered them and/or been flexible. Like MS apparently was.

And I would like to direct you to:

ReimTime said:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/131031qa/02.html

Read A5, paragraph 2 (*edit* paragraph 3 my bad) starting with "In terms of how we view our relationship with 3rd party developers....". I was wrong, it was Iwata who said that not Miyamoto.

I paraphrased it a bit ;) but read for yourself.

Iwata gave many 3rd party developers an ultimatum: develop for the WiiU alone or not at all.

Is that respect? A little support wouldn't kill Nintendo. Making sure 3rd parties knows the ins and outs of your console is beneficial to everyone

"They had a shortage 6 months in to the GC life! Getting a dev kit them would mean it would take you maybe a year to get out your first game for the console... The licensing fee shows that Nintendo doesn't really care about 3rd party support since their competitors had lower fees"

1. short term. 2. Still trying to see how a little higher fee = not caring, especially when nintendo depends on games alone.

"Iwata gave many 3rd party developers an ultimatum: develop for the WiiU alone or not at all."

"Is that respect? A little support wouldn't kill Nintendo."

It's not respect, but it's not true either. ultimatum, lol.