vivster said:
No, it's because they're such a great developer. Only they can create the perfect hardware and then perfectly optimizing everything for it. Without the perfect hardware to their perfect games, their games would only be half perfect. |
There's some truth to that though. Being able to control every aspect of the development pipeline from start to finish makes games come out fast. If Nintendo made multiplatform games for XB1, PS4, and PC they'd have a much harder time getting games out on time. Gotta make sure the game runs on every PC configuration. Gotta set up different servers/updates/DLC for all 3 platforms. Gotta make your games up to graphical standards for all 3 systems (this means the need for 1080/60fps on the PC version).
And once they sell the actual game everybody gets a cut. Right now Nintendo makes a huge profit on games because they have their own little monopoly setup. Nintendo sees $45 from every $60 game sale. If they went multiplat they'd have to shell out for publishing, marketing, and console fees.
