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KLXVER on 01 February 2020
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RolStoppable said:
KLXVER said:

The lack of third parties on Nintendo platforms are primarily Nintendos fault, so helping third parties shine is something they could damn well do a better job at. You say that Nintendo makes big bucks without them, yet we can go back 3 years and see that they had a hard time making the big bucks on their own IPs alone. Look at Sony and MS. They give third parties almost just as much attention as their own titles. Nintendo doesn't. That's why we get a 30 second announcements for a third party game, then 20 minutes of footage from Mario Tennis in their Directs. If they want third parties on their platform, then they have to put in the work and help out wherever they can.

Ironically, one of the big reasons why Nintendo struggled to make profits was because they sucked up to EA with the Wii U. Nintendo and EA announced an unprecedented partnership between the two of them at E3 2011 as every EA IP was supposed to come to the Wii U, according to EA's CEO who was standing on the stage of Nintendo's E3 conference.

Ultimately, Nintendo has no choice but to do what they do. If Nintendo tried to align themselves with the AAA third party publishers, as they did with the Wii U, then the market's response can be summed up with three simple words.

"Fuck off, Nintendo."

The paths of console gaming have never been farther apart than they are today. On one road you have those big third parties who think up one shady money-grabbing scheme after another, on the other road you have Nintendo who has no choice but to be submissive to the market and run their console business with dignity or else they will suffer severe punishment. You can observe this in the development of Nintendo's DLC practices where Nintendo tried virtually all options of DLC pieces and packs as well as microtransactions with free-to-play games such as Pokémon Shuffle and Pokémon Picross on the 3DS and Wii U; it all led to the expansion pass on Switch because the market sent the message that it doesn't want little pieces, but rather meaty content expansions and pay for them accordingly.

Nintendo's path is at odds with the path of the AAA third parties. Like I said in my first post in this thread, gamers are continually led to believe that Nintendo is the evil entity in this equation. You are one of those people who've been had, because you are convinced that Nintendo should pave the way for AAA third parties and help them wherever they can. But if you take a step back to look at the bigger picture, does it really strike you as rational that you, as a gamer, should be advocating for yet another console manufacturer to make all the money-grabbing schemes the expected and accepted standard for console gaming?

Money grabbing schemes? Not every AAA game is like that. Im not saying Nintendo should spotlight a Fifa game that's just the same game from last year with a roster update. GTAV, more Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, Fallout(not 76 obviously), FarCry to name a few. And of course the Switch should be overwhelmed with great third party games from last gen. Dead Space, Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Mass Effect, Batman Arkham etc. Theres obviously something going on there. Why aren't those on the Switch? It would be easy to port and probably not very expensive. Yet the bigger third parties don't do it. They cant all just hate Nintendo for some reason. Nintendo needs to show them some more love. Not do all the heavy lifting for them obviously, but help make it easier for them to take the steps.