http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15400984

I think it's clear that we have different ideas of what's POSSIBLE, so I don't think arguing any further would lead to anything right now.

That's one man who took things personally, not Apple as a company. Even as CEO the board of directors could have told him to piss off if he ended up going in the wrong direction. As I said, companies only care about money; there's no time for grudges. 

Nintendo has a myriad of problems with third parties.

One of them is the third party games that Nintendo fans tend to cry about not having the most (GTA, MGS, etc.) are not family games. So third parties don't really have much help from Nintendo at all in carving out this audience, Nintendo's attitude is basically "well you guys do all the work". Mario or Wii Fit U don't do much for the sales of a game like Crysis.

And Nintendo makes almost exclusively family-friendly style games. That's their entire portfolio. The only wrinkle they've added really is the casual gaming fad with things like fitness and music and mini-game fests taking off.

But under Iwata they've largely even scrapped trying to make games like Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark, NBA Courtside, Conker's BFD, Ken Griffey Jr. MLB, the Star Wars Rogue Squadron games, etc.

It's never a problem for Nintendo to get a Sonic or Rayman or Skylanders or LEGO or Just Dance or Zumba Fitness game ... because these are brands that Nintendo's own IP pave the way for so publishers know there's an audience for that already (ie: Mario, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, Wii Sports, etc.).  

If Nintendo are meant to create this user base for third party FPS games then why have 3rd parties stated we cannot compete against Nintendo on their platform?

Clearly Nintendo is not offering any competition in the FPS genre atm so now the reason is "business decision" coincidentally after we herd what happened with Origin all those months ago now.

Also Nintendo did not create an audience for Skylanders. The forward thinking at Activision is what made Skylanders big. The game execution created an audience for itself, with its battle area and extra packs of new characters. I can with confidence say that Nintendo are kicking themselves for not thinking of doing this with a Pokemon game. I also cna say with confidence that is Skylanders was jsut a game without the addons not many would have noticed it and would have been buried amounts all the shovelware.

It is the first-party's sole responsibility to nurture a healthy environment and blaze a trail for third-parties to thrive on their systems.

Thanks for ignoring my first line.

I would almost argue based on the current performance of only 1million units each on PS3 and 360, a better business decision would be to make the franchise Wii U exclusive as their is no competition for the game there unlike on the hd twins which have halo, killzone, COD, resistance etc.. If they released the full trilogy it could grow with Nintendo's help. Sureit is a huge risk but a risk worth taking. If it doesnt grow then nothing lost as they would simply port C3 to the other systems.

When Nintendo refuses, companies hold a bitter grudge!!

Nintendo should publish any game that developers want to see on the console when other publishers won't. Problem solved, eliminate third party publishers and strengthen relations with developers!

It's not surprising considering the low sales of Black Ops 2 and AC3, there's no reason for 3rd parties to port games onto the WiiU right now.

It would probably only sell 50k so whats the point?

Edit: On the WiiU

Erm... low sales of which games? Tekken? That's the only one that's selling poorly so far.

The other games I mentioned were ZombiU, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Bayonetta 2, and Ninja Gaiden 3. Now, DQ and Bayonetta 2 haven't released. ZombiU is selling extremely well. Monster Hunter is doing great in Japan. Ninja Gaiden 3 is doing fine in Japan, but VGChartz isn't tracking its Japanese sales for some unknown reason (one of a number of glitches in terms of Wii U game data) - I know it's doing fine, because it charted fairly well according to Media Create.

Besides which, I really don't see why weak sales of a few launch titles would convince them not to support the system with the games they already have in development for the system. Your logic is just astounding if you think otherwise.

By the way, Just Dance found its way to other consoles, where it didn't perform as well as it did on the Wii. Indeed, most games that started on Wii and then found their way to other consoles did worse on those consoles than on Wii.