Darwinianevolution on 26 June 2015
| marley said: Nintendo gamers have a no relationship, or in a lot of cases a negative relationship, with 3rd party developers. It would take a lot of effort from 3rd parties to win these consumers back after decades of disregard. I don't see this happening. The userbase is too small for 3rd parties to care when they have a faithful following elsewhere. This is why Nintendo is moving to their unified platform strategy. You shouldn't expect anything from 3rd parties on current or future Nintendo consoles. |
Well, that may be true to some extent. But the thing is that Nintendo still sell a decent amount of 3rd party games, even if it's mostly on their handhelds. Ironically, I think most companies don't sell as well on Nintendo because their reluctancy to localise their games. If companies like Square Enix, Sega, Namco-Bandai and other japanese publishers took their time to establish their titles to western audiences, they would improve a lot their sales, specially with well-known brands (Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, SMT...).
