My Take On The Devil's Third Controversy

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PAOerfulone said:

I'll acknowledge that Nintendo SDP has a role with developing 3rd party titles. But it looks more or less like it does with Bayonetta 2, not really anything major.
By supporting, it means more like giving them the funds and resources they need to develop the title, along with pitching some ideas and techniques that will help the game move along and showing them ways of developing for the Wii U to take advantage of the Wii U's hardware. So they are partially to blame for this.

However, the majority of the development responsibilities still falls on Valhalla. Because, after all, it's their game, thus they are the primary developers. And they had 3 years to make it good on the Wii U, WITH Nintendo's help, they had more than enough time and plenty of support. And they didn't deliver.
Plain and Simple.

Valhalla failing doesn't detract from the fact that Nintendo also messed up big time.

Nintendo used money that could have gone towards a destiny/fallout/GTA port, but instead they chose to invest in this game. That was the first mess up given the fact that this game was in development catastrophe after thq went down.

Then they did not intervene to say "this game looks awful, let's fix it," like a publisher should. That was the second mistake since Nintendo should have maintained a stronger oversight of a game that has been through tough development times.

The next mistake would be to not release the game. Not only could the money they invested have gone to ports of other games, it instead gets completely wasted since no game ends up coming out of it. Despite Valhalla making an awful game, Nintendo should still publish it to not waste the money that could have gone to meaningful ports.