| Scoobes said: 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. |
"Loaning or renting games won't be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners"
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/6/4403930/xbox-one-used-games-license-transfers-no-fee
Not to mention the mountain of critisizm of the used games market from third-parties, locked DLC, and the amount of "support" EA continues to give Xbox. You are in denial. Pointing out glaringly obvious collusion does not need guess work.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
