So then why do many Handheld games by third parties look better then or at least as good as first party games? Why do Handheld consoles get 3rd party support, but not the home platform?

Is Nintendo holding back on consoles only? If so why only consoles? Is it because only Japanese developers support Nintendo, so Nintendo only gives true specs to the handhelds, which see a lot more Japanese support? Or is this just bs?

I think this is bs or at the very least over-exagerated. Maybe Nintendo released 730mb RAM Dev Kits when they first released Dev Kits for the Wii U, but there is a damn good reason for them to do this. If Nintendo gave Dev Kits with full Wii U specs before the PS4 and NextBox were finished being developed, then Sony and MS could and would purposely spec their platforms to make Wii U look weak, or like a last gen console.

By hiding it until now (if they did this), this would make Sony and MS spec their 8th gen consoles more closely to Wii U without realizing it, making Wii U more competetive, and this would encourage devs to make weaker games early on, which would cut development time, building up Wii U's library faster.

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This strategy is similar to releasing the 3DS at an overpriced cost, only to slash it as soon as Sony released their Vita which was designed to compete against the more expensive 3DS. This strategy worked for the 3DS and now Vita sales are not only struggling, but Sony is being forced to slash their systems price in order to maintain a demand, which is really hurting them financially.

So IMO, whoever is in charge of Wii U marketing....he is pretty damn smart.

I'm quite confident that the 3DS price cut was never a strategy. The losses resulting from that made Nintendo go into the red for the 1st time in 30 years.

I'd say more of a panic response.

Having dabbled in indie game dev years ago, I do know that the entire texture library would have to be rebuilt, without making the textures look washed out, and to take advantage of the more powerful systems, a dev might want to add polys to their models, to polish them up a bit. I would doubt it's a short process. Of course, if they're looking for a quick buck to port out as is, then yeah, but you'll start dealing with "jaggies" and the sort.

I couldn't agree more, and that's why I said that Nintendo is fucking up big times.

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Nintendo is fucking up because your agument is illogical? No, they've been doing so long before that.

Let me give you an example of this. I'm an executive, and I call for a game to be developed for the Wii. Now, as an executive, how do you think I'd react if my developers came back and said "We refuse to develop for the Wii because we're not entitled to the same memory allocation as Nintendo"? Keep in mind that the executive doesn't give two shits about technicalities, they're in charge of financial and overall business decisions.

A working example of this was Square moving from Nintendo exlcusitivity. It wasn't done on a TECHNICAL sense. It was done on a FINANCIAL sense. In fact, look up some youtube videos on the history of Squaresoft, and the workers at the time explained how executives came in one day and just told the team "We're going with PlayStation now". It wasn't the devs making this decision, they just did what they were told. A lot of devs were excited, and a lot of devs were disappointed by the decision, but they still had to follow executive orders.