Nintendo is letting 3DS cannibalize Switch

[potato_hamster]

zorg1000 said:

potato_hamster said:

You're totally right. Sorry about that. I just mistakenly assumed both the Wii and 3DS had mario launch titles that I never even bothered to check.

Your accessory prices are far more reasonable, but even the dock at $40 considering it's barely more than a USB to HDMI passthrough selling for $60 still feels steep.

To be clear, I'm not surprised at all that Nintendo has a mini-game selection that is launching with the Switch. I'm surprised that game is 1-2 Switch and everything that 1-2 Switch is. I figured it would be something like Wii Sports that was easy to pick up, easy to play, had an incredible amount of polish, was a huge amount of fun at parties, and most importantly, highlighted the console's strongest points. Instead we got Nintendo's version of the shake-weight.

As for your 3DS samples, my bad. I didn't know Nintendo pawned of some of their iconic IPs to third parties as much as they do. I assumed that because Nintendo was publishing it and it was a Nintendo IP, Nintendo was making it. My bad.

Ya Nintendo actually has a pretty long history of outsourcing their IP.

Capcom developed multiple handheld Zelda titles on GBC/GBA.

Sega developed F-Zero GX

Namco has developed Star Fox Assault, multiple Mario Sports games, Pokken Tournament, Donkey Konga, and assisted on Smash Bros.

Mario & Luigi has always been developed by Alpha-Dream

Syn Sophia develops Style Savvy

Headstrong develops Art Academy & did the Battalion Wars games.

Next Level Games has developed Mario Strikers, Luigi's Mansion, Punch-Out.

Monster Games has worked on the Excite series, Pilotwings, and handled the ports of DKC Returns & Xenoblade onto 3DS.

Grezzo developed the Zelda remakes on 3DS along with being heavily involved on Triforce Heroes

Tantalus handled the Twilight Princess HD port.

Camelot has developed multiple Mario Sports games along with Golden Sun

Spike Chunsoft develops the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games and Fossil Fighters

Before ND Cube (Nintendo subsidiary) started developing Mario Party, it was developed by Hudson Soft.

Arzest/Artoon have worked on a few handheld Yoshi titles along with some of the mini games on Wii Play Motion & Streetpass Plaza.

Good Feel has worked on Wario, Kirby & Yoshi titles in the last decade.

Skip Ltd develops the Chibi Robo games

Ambrella has worked on various Pokemon spinoffs

Vanpool develops Dillon's Rolling Western and has helped on Paper Mario

Platinum Games worked on Star Fox Zero

Treasure developed Wario World along with Sin & Punishment

Genuis Sonority has developed various Pokemon spinoffs

Paon has developed a few Donkey Kong spinoffs

Arika developed Endless Ocean & a bunch of Dr. Mario games

Team Ninja developed Metroid: Other M and assisted on Hyrule Warriors

Thats all in the last 15 years or so.

Thanks for the info!