Has the Wii U irreparably damaged Nintendo's image?

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megaman79 said:

Scoobes said:

You mean Nintendo's lack of professionalism, right?

Edit: Alt account, oh well... nice try, lol.

1. Is it professional to delay a launch title exclusive platformer for a WHOLE YEAR, or promise at E3 full support for a console, and then shiv that fucking console in the spinal column with Mass Effect 3 (giving a bundle of all 3 titles to the other competitor consoles)?

2. Is it professional to willingly gut your own consoles chances at success, at the beck and whim of Western 3rd Parties, who ALMOST CERTAINLY convinced Microsoft to implement anti-consumer measures in their product?

3. If you think Nintendo's treatment of 3rd Parties, and further more their current trajectory of selling plastic toys and theme park rides, was the worst they could've done, YOU ARE COMPLETELY BLIND. 

 

1. It's EA, so I would attribute that down to complete and utter incompetence. They also released a pretty good version NFS: Most Wanted which didn't sell particularly well. Also, just because I think Nintendo haven't been particularly professional over the years with third parties, doesn't stop third parties also behaving poorly. Nintendo and EA in particular seem to have had a significant fallout during the year before the WiiU release. The details of that fallout aren't exactly public knowledge, but I'm not going to put fault just on one party.

2. This is pure guesswork and highly unlikely. MS are a PC company and probably just tried to copy the lucrative system from Steam and other PC services. The fact that Sony didn't put this in their console yet still had lots of support from third parties also suggests that this assessment is completely wrong.

3. When did I say this? All I've said (well, inferred from the post I quoted) is that Nintendo haven't been particularly professional in their relationships with third parties (particularly outside of Japan). Third parties general lack of support and reluctance to release anything on Nintendo consoles suggests this may well be the case.