| RolStoppable said: You have no idea what you are talking about. |
This.
While Rol and I disgree often on whether or not a Nintendo console will get the big AAA support, what you suggest in the OP is how Nintendo really would doom itself. Not only that but N64 and Gamecube both prove you wrong, Wii actually had good 3rd party support, just not your cherry picked opinion that only includes big AAA titles.
NES/SNES were successfull due to providing what consumers wanted in gaming of the time, high quality and immense fun. Nintendo IPs drove the sales and 3rd parties went where 90% of the customers were. This allowed Nintendo to create ball-breaking agreements and piss them off.
N64 and GC were less successful (still profitable and thus still a success) because the market grew towards 3rd party specific titles and Nintendo had ruined that relationship. Carts vs Disks would have been overcome, after all the portable line has always remained with carts, even with others tried to offer a different path. Simple conclusion was that 3rd parties did not want to deal with Nintendo's policies and needed time to rebuild that relationship. This combined with PS machines having 70% of the market, there was little reason to deal with Nintendo.
Wii was a massive success. There is no way to argue it wasn't. It had 3rd party content that devs felt they could put on the hardware. It was too massive of a consumer base to ignore even when similar titles sold less by volume as compared to PS360. It was still worth the risk to build a one-off version for Wii as it was pretty much guaranteed to be profitable.
WiiU was a failure for reasons that do not include its raw power output. It flat out didn't sell to consumers and that justified 3rd parties to walk away. They already knew at parity their titles would sell less (evidenced by Wii) but with no one buying the console, the risk just simply wasn't worth it. Plus, this is the gen where big 3rd parties, namely EA, were attempting to push consoles to a digital only future with their stores on the devices as well. Nintendo wouldn't do that (MS tried and failed while Sony recognized early enough that MS was failing so they dropped the idea before announcment). This is literally why Nintendo went from "unprecedented EA support" at one E3 to being dropped from every possible title by the next E3 (related to EA only). Nintendo backed out of any perceived agreements they had with EA on this digital front.
Switch is already proving to be a success to consumers and that is even with unproven 3rd party support. Switch fixes the middleware support that also plagued previous Nintendo consoles which removes more barriers for 3rd parties. Switch will get as much and more 3rd party support than Wii did. There will certainly still be titles that won't make it due to the hardware differences between Switch and the top-end MSony machines, but that will be the exception and not the rule. (my opinion)
