Pezus
1. True, mostly kids play CoD, Zelda is a much more mature game, so it has a less marketshare
2. Is not made by SOny or Msoft
3. Mario outsells all of them toghether, not very successful games...
4. PG is not arcade, Motorstorm barely sold 1m+, weres the success proven?
5. First person adventure
6. Not bad, thanks to the Halo name on it sold something, still not enough to prove themselves, no sequel? lol, what about Sony?

to sum up
Not even Sony and Msoft put toghether can achieve what Nintendo has done as a first party, both in quality and sales performance...

Never played Geist or Metroid on Gamecube or Goldeneye 007 on N64? They have done it in the past and already proved they can do it better than the competition when the odds are even. Old school 2D Mario games are as hardcore as it gets for me so i dont know what the fuss is about casual and hardcore games on a Nintendo console. Im sure most on this forum never even beat New Super Brothers Wii and cleared all the stages with all the star coins in the game.

Because they shouldn't have to. there ya go.

Metroid Prime.

I think nintendo didnt really see the importance of those games but until a couple of years ago. I am sure they could make an amazing COD clone or some gears kind of game, but I believe, they know making those games wont change the perception third parties have of them. Lets imagine for a second nintendo makes their own assassins creed, halo, gta and gears games and they sell around 1-2 millions each.
Nintendo: Amazing, third parties now can replicate our success with their own games!
3rd parties: Look at nintendo coping our games! Now nobody is going to buy our games because everybody is going to be waiting for their sequels!!!!
N-Fan: Ok, those games were ok, now where is zelda,fzero and metroid??? Reggie???

Prime is the first and only one FPA game I know. I think it's a very very small genre. Some FPS combine exploration, adventure and guns, but Prime focused more on the first two and the last one was mixed with puzzles.

Sales dont matter now? funny

again
Not even Sony and Msoft put toghether can achieve what Nintendo has done as a first party, both in quality and sales performance...
if theres a company that has nothing to prove thats Nintendo

There are two kind of racers, sims and arcades(not trying to simulate reality) very simple dude...
FPA: Metroid Prime series

the problem with Nintendo is that Japanese market didnt cared about the core games apeared on the GC and the Wii, nothing to prove on the West, but in Japan...as an example Zelds SS and Metroid 3 flopped in Japan and did very well overseas
Japan is where Nintendo failed to atract the core audience...

This is pretty much it. They even did mention when Wii came out that they will leave windows open for 3rd parties to release their games so they can sell well and not compete against their first part games.

We all saw hwo that turned out. Caught them off guard expecting games to come out but nothing, so the long dry spells  occurred.

Also they did try making a mature game. Disaster: Day of Crisis. Wasn't that great.

"Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America on November 17, 2002. It is the first 3D game in the Metroid series, the fifth main installment, and is classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure^[2] rather than a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game and its precedence over combat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime

"Metroid Prime is a first-person adventure game. Players control a bounty hunter named Samus Aran who must unravel a mystery behind the ruined walls scattered across Tallon IV."

http://www.gamespot.com/news/metroid-prime-company-line-6101089

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go play the godfather on Wii which is a ps2 port with Wii Remote Controls. Pretty damn good for a port effort.

So I think if a measly port can implement controls well I am sure ROckstar have the talent to do the same if nto better.