Nintendo an third parties - bad relationship?

[AlfredoTurkey]

mountaindewslave said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

This has been a problem since the NES. The only reason that console had such great third party support was because there were no other options available at the time. When Genesis became a viable alternative, third parties started slowly favoring them and then when PS1 came out, it all started to snow ball.

Nintendo COULD have great relationships with third parties and retailers, but they have to bend a little and go get them. I think the problem has always been that they have certain barriers that the other companies don't.

 

Nintendo has actually had DECENT third party support in terms of big titles over the years. I can think of plenty exclusive titles that make you scratch your head, like the Star Wars Rogue Squadron series on the N64 and Gamecube, and then wasn't Resident Evil 4 an exclusive for a while?

Nintendo has a good relationship with the other Japanese third party developers (namely Capcom, Square Enix, Bandai)

that said I do agree that if Nintendo chose to 'bend a bit' and present a higher spec more consumer friendly system then they would easily pull in more hardware sales and therefore more third party support

the problem now is that Nintendo is known for selling so well with its first party that I think it turns off third party developers as they are afraid that the Nintendo consumers will not buy any of their stuff. this has sometimes been the case, but then again sometimes it hasn't been

I think if the NX takes off then we'll see a bit of a mending. although I doubt you are ever going to see tons of Activision and EA activity with Nintendo, the companies are just apples and oranges in terms of style

 

All they'd have to do is release their next console with an industry standard controller, make sure the specs match the competition and then tell major third parties that if they release games on their console, they will now stand to pay 50% less than they would on PS4 and Xbox One. Whatever those two are charging, half it. This is similar to what Sony did with the PS1 and it's pretty much the only reason it did so well. Nothing speaks to publishers and indies more than money.