Nintendo an third parties - bad relationship?

[kitler53]

Hiku said:

kitler53 said:
there is no egregious bad blood between nintendo and third parties. third parties will go where they think they can make money - simple as that.

non-standard hardware architecture. non-standard controller input. low install base. these things get in the way of making money.

no big conspiracy no matter how much some will tell you otherwise.

^Agreed.

Third parties have nothing against making money.
Looking at Nintendo's home consoles over the years, it's been unconventional or limited in some way or other ever since the N64.
You can see that their handhelds get great third party support though.

bringing up handhelds is a good point.

sony has great 3rd party relationships in general but that didn't help vita.  there was some 3rd party support there at launch and it very quickly evaporated as the sales numbers came it.  losing 3rd party support on vita was absoultly brutal towards accellarating the collapse of vita being a "viable platform" but i'll restate the same thing i've written here time and time again:

it is the platform owner's responsibility to make an attractive platfrom for 3rd party developers not 3rd party developer's responsibility to make the the platform owner's hardware attractive to consumers.

nintedo is to blame for wiiU.  sony is to blame for vita.