It's well known Nintendo isn't friendly toward third-parties and it's consoles lacking support from them. It's happening with and happened with N64 and GC before as well. The reasons, according to most of third-parties, for not supporting Nintendo consoles were these:
3P Complaint: N64 - don't want to make games for it because carts are small memory/too expensive and programming for it is hard
Nintendo Answer: The GameCube, which is much easier to program for (and easier than PS2 by all accounts), has discs this time and is very powerful.
3P Complaint: PS2 is the clear market leader, discs are still too small, GameCube demographic is "kiddies" and doesn't match up with our "mature" games
Nintendo Answer: Wii, which has not only the largest install base, but has a far wider demographic than any other console, including a much higher percentage of women and people over 30. Oh and we have full-sized discs now
3P Complaint: Wii is too underpowered, can't realize our incredible vision, too hard to judge the massive market, weird controller makes it too hard to port games, online is too difficult to utilize effectively, etc"
Now, if Wii's successor is more powerful than PS3 and Xbox 360, get a decent online community and fix most of the issues people are complaining about, what third-parties this time will use as a justification to not support it?
















