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JWeinCom on 25 September 2016
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Ljink96 said:
JWeinCom said:

3DS third party support is not great.  It's ok.  Compared to the XBox One and PS4, third party support is really slim.  If this is going to be Nintendo's home and handheld system, 3DS levels of support are not enough. 

And the Wii U would have definitely sold far better with power on par with the PS4 or XBox One.  There are tons of people, particularly kids, who like Mario and Pokemon but also want GTA and Call of Duty.  And third party games do sell on Nintendo systems under the right circumstances.  Of about 160 games to break a million on the Wii, about 130 were third party games.  

One of the most important things though, is that nobody is expecting Nintendo to match cutting edge technology.  The XBox 360 and PS3 were very advanced systems for their time.  The PS3 CPU and the XBox 360 GPU were close to the top of the line at that point, at least when it came to consumer grade products.  The PS4 and the XBox One were not cutting edge when they were launched, and the NX will be launching 3 years later.  Getting close enough to the PS4 to ensure third party support should be a given.  Nintendo shouldn't be a generation and a half behind.

Yeah, it's not the best but it's better than the Vita, its main competition. And my mistake, Japanese 3rd party support is decent on 3DS not western. And yes, 3rd party games sold fairly well on Wii because of what Wii accomplished. Of the top 15 best selling games, 7 of them are Nintendo Wii games, made by Nintendo and each is over 20 million. People buy Nintendo consoles mainly for Nintendo games.

And as I like to say, if your game isn't fun, it won't sell. Nintendo knows this. Mario Kart 8 has over a 50% attachment rate on Wii U. It's a great game. So Nintendo's issue isn't that it doesn't make fun games. Its issue isn't even the fact that it makes underpowered hardware. The issue is the pricing of said underpowered hardware. You know you're going to get quality games made by Nintendo. But if you're paying too much for an underpowered console, that's where the issue is. DS was far less powerful than vita, but it was cheaper and thus far more accessible. I think the marketing and price killed the Wii U.

I believe Nintendo will make sure to make the NX a fair price while offering a decent power output and amazing games, and that's a great spot to be in.

The key word you used was mainly.  Primarily people buy a Nintendo system for Nintendo games, but third party games are also necessary.  

Pricing isn't really an issue.  The Wii sold at 250.  The Wii U was 300 for its basic model.  After inflation, there's hardly a difference.  The Wii U was 50-100 cheaper than the PS4 while the Wii was 50 dollars cheaper than the 360. 

Third party support wasn't the #1 cause of the Wii U's failure, but it played a big role.  There was simply nothing to play between Nintendo releases.  Unifying the hardware can help, but they still need third party support.   And there's no reason they shouldn't have a system powerful enough to get it.