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marley on 26 June 2015
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JNK said:
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.


Wow. Most wii u owner and console owner in general are casuals who dont care if anything is third first or whatever party. Im sure 9 out of 10 mio wii u owner dont "hate" ubisoft or ea or whatever, their games just dont appeal to them.

Many of my rl-friends who got mostly  got a ps4/pc dont even know that games like splatoon or even games like mario kart made by nintendo. The majority of people dont buy games because of its publishers, that bs. There is no "bad relationship". 

Wii U/Nintendo console only owners are just not interested in realistic looking games. Thats because they are young (kids do look cartoony movies not realistic ones right) or just personal preference. People who want realistic looking games just get a ps4/xbox one.

All those big AAA Blockbusters will never sell near as many copies on nintendos systems as on ps/xbox. Even when nx is easy to port it wont happen.  

Nintendo only gamers come in two flavors:

Newer casual 'Nintendo only' gamers that have no relationship with 3rd parties.
-or-
Old more hardcore 'Nintendo only' gamers that have a bad relationship with 3rd parties.

I promise you that there are Nintendo gamers that have a 'bad relationship' with 3rd party developers.  This is what happens when you've been ignored and given crappy ports repeatedly for decades.  Being cartoony is not the sole criterion for a game to sell well on a Nintendo console.  There have been plenty of cartoony 3rd party games made for Nintendo's sytem that didn't perform well.  Those big AAA blockbusters won't magically sell as many copies on Nintendo's system simply because they are cartoony.  They sell well on PS & Xbox because 3rd parties have been building and nurturing their fanbase there for DECADES.  This doesn't exist on Nintendo's consoles.  It has nothing to do with being cartoony or realistic.  

It makes no sense to invest a bunch of money to create and market to a relatively small group of gamers when their fans already game on a different system.  They would need to either create and nurture a new userbase of fans -or- convince their existing fans to migrate.  Neither of those situations is likely- not on the WiiU, not on the NX, and not on any console after that.  There is simply no incentive.