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Nu-13 on 04 February 2020
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padib said:
DonFerrari said:

Yep it have been said. But those are the only numbers we had and within 1 or 2 years PS4/X1 had more than 10 2M+ 3rd party sellers right?

I'll say it again, pubs don't hate money nor hate Nintendo. The reason they don't put the big guns on Switch (or do an exclusive for it that is big) is because their forecasts show that there isn't the return they expect to receive on other platforms. There really isn't another answer, unless we go conspiracy theories or pubs hate Nintendo money.

It's not that EA hates money, for sure that is impossible. If there is one thing we know about EA, it's that they love money.

But what seems to be happening is that EA did not believe in the Nintendo Switch. They probably don't believe in the Nintendo platform at all. This is probably due to their results on the Wii and on the Wii U. On the Wii, they had terrible results due to the limited features of the software they released. It is well known that the Wii versions of their software were much less feature-rich (I'm not talking about frame rate or resolution here, but content). It is also known that they polluted the Wii library with low-quality software outside of their big brands. They were not alone in this lazy cash-grabbing, but it shows what kind of publisher they are.

As for the WiiU, we can't really blame them about it, that's true. Nintendo failed to produce a compelling product with the WiiU and the sales suffered. But they learned from it, and the 3DS, which lived alongside the WiiU, did very very well.

So, it is only logical to assume that Nintendo as a brand has value and that EA should never count them out.

Finally, as I said before, EA has a vested interest in the success of the Playstation and Xbox brands, because those are the platforms where EA can sell their yearly releases and make mad money. Nintendo is not following that trend and is going more after japanese-centric software and 3rd parties. So EA seems at once lost in that, and at the same time don't want to push that trend.

It's not about conspiracy, but about alliances and confidence in a brand.

EA has no confidence in Nintendo.

That is their mistake. Never underestimate Nintendo.

They should do like Ubisoft and find a proper synergy with Nintendo instead of lying on lame excuses.

In the end, what matters is that Nintendo maintains their success, and in turn increases the success stories of 3rd parties on their platform. This will cause EA to turn their eye to green pastures, and give the light of day to Nintendo.

But you can rest assured that EA is no partner to Nintendo, only a company that will profit from Nintendo's success rather than help build it.

Compare that to Ubisoft (Raving Rabbids), Capcom (Capcom 5), Namco (Tekken Tag U), Netherrealm (MK11), ... who will take a chance and try to help promote a platform so that they can make a market for themselves on it.

Compare that to now the inverse, how Sony invested millions in helping Squaresoft market Final Fantasy VII, FF a brand at the time that only managed to sell between a few hundred thousand and not even 1m in the US up until then. That is how you forge alliances.

It has nothing to do with confidence. EA simply hates nintendo more than they love money.