Oh, they'd buy the 3DS of the kids wanted it - believe me. I got a Nintendo (NES) when I was young, and got games every time I had a birthday. Now, I could have gotten a board game - but I didn't cuz I didn't want it. I wanted Nintendo. I got Nintendo. And my family wasn't that rich either. I don't think parents gonna stop buying consoles for their kids if the kids wants it, just because we have mobile phones with games nowadays.

I think he's referring to the Dream Team.  It was a selected group of developers and publishers that Nintendo was using to strategically provide content for the system.

Rare, Angel Studios, DMA Design, Williams, Paradigm, Spectrum Holobyte, Sierra Online, GameTek, GTE Interactive Media and Acclaim were the Dream Team members.   Things certainly did not go as planned.

Well, ok, I worded that wrong. Very, very few games can match Nintendo sales - but the truth is, that if they'd bothered they (3rd party) could have done much better on Nintendo consoles. I mean, a lot of Wii owners got themselves a second console just to play 3rd party games. That's evidence for my theory right there; 3rd parties could do well on Nintendo consoles - whether it's handheld or home.

Ha, your probably right, but i know some modern parents that simply cant afford to do that.

Right, yeah. Dream Team. Pardon me, it's been a long time since I thought of the phrase.

I think that probably was part of what hurt developer relations back in the N64 era. They still haven't recovered from that.

At least we got TUrok out of it.

Thanks.

Tbh I don't think that really mattered, because Nintendo's japanese support was what mattered most, and that was undermined by Sony even sooner than Nintendo's western support, which still had Rare, Lucas Arts and Factor5 to name a few. EA would've made better sports games on the N64 but had much more to work with on the PS thanks to licensed music playback and extensive rosters all thanks to the CD-ROM.

And how much of those 3rd party games sold as well as as those Ninty ones on Wii, how well would they have done on Wii? Hell how much of those PS360 3rd party games could even RUN on Wii and when I mean run, im not talking about barely like how the COD games have extreme pop up, and the online lags to all hell to the point where you have to shoot where the person might be at and lower player count. Judging by the sales of the multiplat games that did come out, im guessing not much. 

Im not defending 3rd parties, but im also not condeming them, Ninty games sell better, its just the way it is.

You are correct. 

Since the N64 days, 3rd parties have no put as much effort on the Nintendo consoles as they have on the other consoles and consumers ahve responded by buying games from a publisher they trust to provide good quality - Nintendo.

The issue started on the N64 because Nintendo's decision to use cartridges instead of CD's reduced the per unit profit potential for publishers so it made sense financially to put more effort on the disc based consoles.   The problem is that the mind set, software ecosystem and stmata generated from that carried over to the GC despite having a disc based medium.

This further ascerbated the 1st party / 3rd party disparity which leads us to now.   The fact that 3DS launched with far better 3rd party support than did DS and that Wii U is way ahead of Wii's intial 3rd party support suggests this aricle is not only full of crap but is riding the journalistic mentality of 'Nintendo doomed' articles are good business.

Thing is, with a machine like the Wii, you can't just port any game and expect it'll sell well. You need to use the machine. They could have done awesome boxing games, for an example. And there was some great 3rd party games that really took advantage of Wii: Just Dance (or whatever it's called) by Ubisoft. Those games sold like crazy! THAT'S what 3rd parties need to do: use the HW! There's one simple fact why 3rd party titles sell so well on PS360: not even the 1st party games uses the hardware - so there's less competition!! Sure, they've got great graphics - but they are not utilizing the machines like Nintendo maximized the Wii.

3rd parties need to be more creative when it comes to Nintendos consoles. As simple as that.

To be fair, Konami is a fairly important publisher (understatement), and n-space had a very different reaction from western publishers as compared to the DS gen. So he's not really all that bad, I actually thought he was being honest, just may be a little misguided in his conclusions that's all.