Nintendo Fans Vs. Third-Party Developers & Entitlement

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

Basically the big western publishers & Nintendo have different views on the types of games they make and this leads to them attracting different audiences so western 3rd parties don't need Nintendo & Nintendo doesn't need western 3rd parties.

Except Japanese 3rd party support for their consoles has been even worse. Ubi Soft and Activision have been actually two of Nintendo's better third party partners. 

And every console manufacturer needs Western third party support if they want to be truly relevant in the West, but I think Nintendo is kind of just out of it when it comes to that. The mistake was letting both Sony AND Microsoft gain large footholds into the industry, that's really where all these problems stem from. 

Consumers, third parties, etc. no one really wants a third wheel console. There's never been three successful consoles at once except when the Wii went to a total casual slant opening up a temporary new audience that's since shifted away. 

When talking about Nintendo, u can't just leave out the side of their business that receives about 70% of their software output. So far this generation, Nintendo has published about 30 games for Wii U and about 70 games for 3DS.

Nintendo has shipped about 40 million units of hardware, and growing, to the west on the strength of Nintendo-published titles, and with Japanese/indie/child friendly games serving as secondary support. So no, Nintendo really doesn't need the mainstream, AAA western titles that Playstation/Xbox rely on.