Oddworld Creator Comment: is it the fault of a console maker if third parties don't do well?

[Alkibiádēs]

Qwark said:

Alkibiádēs said:

Yokai Watch, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Professor Layton, Shovel Knight, Just Dance, Skylanders (in its prime), etc. all beg to differ. 

If you make a good game that fits the demographic it will sell well. If you make a crummy late-port with little to no marketing and sell it for a full price then you should not be surprised that it bombed (which is around 90% of the third party support Nintendo got)

Games like Marvel VS. Capcom and Street Fighter V are bombing on PS4 and/or Xbox One though. Not to mention the failed project that was Scalebound. 

Wasn't scalebound an exclusive game. Proffesor Layton and Yokai Watch are second party and Nintendo exclusive. Point remains that 75% of the third party support the PS4 and Xone get just don't sell on Nintendo consoles. Resident evil 4 released earlier on the Gamecube but was still outsold by both the PS2 version of that game. Now monster hunter and Yokai watch mainly sell well in Japan and are pretty much Nintendo exclusive except for MH worlds these days. In general big third party IP's from Western developers don't tend to sell well on Nintendo hardware take Rayman origins Wii got outsold by the PS3 version 2:1 while such a game should do well with the Nintendo crowd, or so one would think. It is usually rare for a third party game that releases both on a Nintendo console and Playstation/Xbox to sell around the same amount of units. Except for JRPG's and party games which sell like crap on PS/Xbox. The need for speed series is another example of a series without late ass ports which simply don't sell all that well on Nintendo consoles even though they did get many entries from the GC till the Wii U era.

So much wrong in this post. Yokai Watch and Professor Layton are third party games, Nintendo just publish them outside of Japan. Minecraft isn't a second party Sony game just because they publish it in Japan... 

Your Resident Evil 4 example is also terrible. The Gamecube barely sold over 20 million units while the PS2 sold over 150 million units, of course Resident Evil 4 was going to sell better on the PS2. RE4 still sold good numbers on the Gamecube however. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on the 3DS became the best selling Monster Hunter game in the West, with over a million copies sold. 

What big third party IP's are you talking about? Nintendo almost never gets them, obviously they can't sell well then... 

Rayman Origins released in November 2011 when the Wii was practically dead already. Not even The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword sold well on the Wii.