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Forums - Gaming - Jools Watsham gives reason why he thinks 3rd parties have trouble publishing on Nintendo systems.

Acevil said:
kitler53 said:
this is the first i've heard of anyone complaining about third-party game sales on the 3DS...


Well I can understand Western Publishers, since I can't even think a title I want by them. 


They must think Nintendos hardware limits them in making hugely overrated sandbox games with generic characters and plotlines. I kid i kid...kind of.



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We suck, so we can't compete with 1st party games.



maybe 3;rd parties should do games with similar budget and quality as Nintendo??

just a tought...



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It's either one of two things:

1) Third party games don't put forth as much effort as they should and that's why they don't sell well.
2) They aren't as talented at making games as Nintendo and it really shows.

You guys take your pick...



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RolStoppable said:
amp316 said:
It's either one of two things:

1) Third party games don't put forth as much effort as they should and that's why they don't sell well.
2) They aren't as talented at making games as Nintendo and it really shows.

You guys take your pick...

The publishers are right. Namco did a very good Tekken game. Konami did a very good Metal Gear game. SEGA put a lot of money into RThief, paid a famous actor to do the marketing in Japan, two famous singers to sing the theme song, a lot of money into anime cutscenes, a very good game for a popular genre. And all thoses game had terrible sales. If you go into any nintendo site, the fans are only talking about nintendo games and about ThirdParty, "well, maybe i'm gonna buy when hits the bargain price", they say. Nintendo released a rithymn game and sold a lot, SEGA with RThief sold...50k. Even with a good game and good marketing. And Tekken and Metal Gear are big franchises. 

I don't believe nintendo will ever go third party because their game will always sell 20 or 30 millions of copies and give money, but that's it, the destiny of nintendo fans is basically play nintendo games and look the sony-microsoft fans playing the super games from third parties. And, like i said, seems they don't care for this, nintendo games are the only things they need. 

For example, we have this Namco-SEGA-Capcom game coming, people are expecting something big and i'm pretty much sure its gonna be some shitty card game or some puzzle. That's what's the TP will do in nintendo hardwares. 

So, i disagree with you. It's does not matter how much effort you put into nintendo consoles, only big-mega-super franchises like Monster Hunter will have good sales. Nintendo fans are closed mind and only cares for Mario, Pokemon and Zelda.

You can keep your Madworld.

I'm going to go play Zelda now.



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Pretty much right, but the biggest issue is quality games aren't advertised either, and when they are (Epic Mickey, Goldeneye, Monster Hunter), they sell well.

Devs just don't try, because they think it won't sell. So they release an inferior port/ version, which sells poorly, then reaffirm their position.



 

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Maybe the Nintendo handheld market can take some of the blame. It could be the user base is focused on nintendo titles (most of which are colorful, heavily imaginative, and can be aimed at younger markets). Sure some third party titles are poorly made, but as stated even quality titles can have trouble with nintendo consoles. Let's be honest, if the majority of the market is young, a lack of advertisement and identifiers to both the children and their parents will have a hard time selling. Does any market breakdown polling exist publicly on specific consoles?



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