| RolStoppable said: Like I said, to have a chance to get multiplatform games, Nintendo's next console would have to retail at around $400. That pretty much guarantees failure, so why even bother? Additionally, nobody can realistically expect that third parties would be on board, even if Nintendo ticked all the boxes as far as hardware, development, controller etc. go. When Nintendo sold 100m Wiis, third parties didn't think "we shouldn't count out Nintendo next time", hence why support for the Wii U was so lackluster right from the start with the majority of new 360/PS3 releases not coming to Nintendo's system. The current situation is that the Wii U is a big failure, so based on the past the only logical conclusion is that most third parties would ignore Nintendo regardless of what Nintendo does. So any attempt to make a console like Sony or Microsoft would have a 99.9% chance for failure, because if the system will lose out on many multiplatform games, why should it even be considered in a comparison to buy either a Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft console? A lot of people think that Nintendo ignoring major third parties would be a big mistake, but doing that would actually result in a much higher probability for success because of the aforementioned reasons. |
Its the classic case of the chicken and the egg.
Yes, having an enviroment that third partied can easily thrive would mean they come in at $399 or so to hsve a box that can matcj whatever sony or MS puts out. However, even with that third partied won't go there unless they believe their is a natketable install base. And if that doesn't exist, then nintendo will have to spend a lot of money to get their support.... basically pay third parties to make a nintendo version of most big games for at least a year or two. When the market feels there is content parity, then sales of the console will at lesst be mainstream and not niche.
Or dow what MS did, and pay Take2 a chuck of money to at least make sure the next GTA game is also on their platform.
The simple truth is that when it comes to the mainstream and the popular big AAA third party games, nintendo is just never in that conversation . They hsve zero mindshare, and that is hurting them.
A company can exist without thrid parties, but its just not feasible. nintendo doesnt even have up to 20M dedicated home console customers.
I dont know what they are going to do with the NX, but i think its safe ti assume they are trying to catch lighting in a bottle again, like they tried to do with the wiiU too; i only hope thst it works. I like nintendo, they introduced me to console gaming.
In the mobile space, they do have a lot better third party support than whats in their console segment, i think yhey are trying to combine both markets somehow. It could work, and it could also fail horribly.
So no, third parties wont ignore nintendo no natter what they do, real question is that is nintendo willing to do whst will make them listen? Sony did it, MS did it, nintendo feel they dont need to.
I say the next nintendo platform will fail without third party support that is at lewst better than what they currently have, i see ut points I just think that you , like nintendo..... are underestimating the value of third party games.
Think about this, in a year how many game ads are there? Every time an ad comes up and at the end of it you see PC,PS4 and XB1 boxes..... thats mindshare. Thats them being in thr gaming conversation. Thats another lost marketing opportunity for nintendo. Its honestly really bad.
