RolStoppable said:
Yes, that's true. During the Wii/DS era Iwata had to repeatedly address complaints of third parties that Nintendo software accounts for too high of a share of the total software sold, so for 3DS and Wii U the plan was to have less first party software titles initially in order to start off with a higher share for third party software. The reality was that third parties didn't follow up on their complaints and instead pushed back the release dates of their planned games (or cancelled them) because the hardware wasn't selling at a high enough rate. This didn't have financial consequences for third parties, but of course for Nintendo because they couldn't all of a sudden release games that weren't intended to be finished sooner in the first place. Unforeseen delays for first party games only made this worse in the Wii U's case. Nintendo isn't falling into the same trap with Switch. The strategy for Switch is to act according to what third parties do, not what they say. |
Ahh! Now that explains a lot! I wonder why Nintendo listened to the 3rd parties anyway, after all, there was always a good chance of this happening. It's not like Nintendo needed 3rd parties during the 7th gen anyway.
