Nintendo Fans Vs. Third-Party Developers & Entitlement

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The truth is though the "Nintendo fan who really wants the hyper violent third party games on their console" gamer itself is a small crowd to begin with.

Even on the GameCube, back when it would get legitimately good third party ports or exclusives like the Resident Evil games, the sales were relatively underwhelming compared to the PS2 or even XBox for similar kinds of titles. This is why Capcom bailed on exclusivity for Resident Evil and other Capcom Five titles, the sales were just not good enough to justify exclusivity.

Most Nintendo "fans" buy a Nintendo console a speciality secondary device primarily to get their Nintendo family game fix and it's been that way since the N64 era.

Sony (and MS) have laid claim to being the real "go to" console for the general mainstream third party variety title. And the thing is, they suit the general third party blockbuster (which is either a violent action game of some type or a jock-centric sports game in most cases) because that is the same audience Sony/MS market and design their consoles to 100%, whereas Nintendo still prefers to make 90% of their internal content so sugary sweet it'd make Walt Disney himself blush.

So I mean I think we're all just past this. Sure there is a crowd of Nintendo fans who are online who still gripe about not getting third party game X/Y/Z, but they're not really even representative of the general Nintendo fanbase as a whole who are content just playing Mario Kart, Smash, etc. Most of them own a Playstation or XBox console as well, so they're not deprived of anything to begin with.

Nintendo are what they are, but what that is is a speciality side console maker that makes fun family-centric consoles with toy-like charm. But they're not really a go to place for what the modern day third party blockbuster IP is. The last time Nintendo themselves had a *real* blockbuster hit with the older player demographic was GoldenEye and that was like 18 years ago now, lol.