Nintendo an third parties - bad relationship?

[fleischr]

I figure the relationships are just fine. Nintendo and 3rd parties have a lot of shared respect for eachother -- they just don't have the same incentives to work together they way 3rd parties often do with MS and Sony.

No gaming company is immune to making mistakes. EA, Ubisoft, Sega, Square, Konami, Activision -- all make BIG mistakes - but they can make up for that over time with good releases. Nintendo makes big mistakes too, but the stakes are higher and aren't as easy to overcome having a smaller scale of enterprise than MS or Sony.