Sorry....but what are you talking about? "try to act like the biggest guy on campus"............what?

Also, Ubisoft had the highest selling third party Wii title to date (half a million copies), followed by Lego City and Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate. Ubisoft and Activision both are supporting Wii U with several titles this fall/holiday season, so they both obviously have faith that Nintendo will boost system sales (with the price drop and Zelda bundle, as well as Mario, DK and Wii Fit, they will), and obviously think it's worth it to support the console. Though to be honest, if they had kept Rayman as an exclusive and released it in Feb., it would have undoubtedly sold better than what it's going to wind up selling on any console this fall, with such stiff competition.

Also, I know my Nintendo history just fine. But their relationship towards third party studios in the Iwata era is much improved over the Yamauchi era. Vastly improved. The Wii U started off with very strong third party support. A lot of those games didn't light up the charts because they were quickly made ports, but the point is third parties felt Wii U was worth putting their games on. And as far as Bethesda and Gearbox are concerned, with the exception of the now-cancelled abortion of an Aliens game, what have either company ever put out on Nintendo systems to begin with? It's not exactly as if they have a history of support in either case.

Serious question here, have you ever heard a 3rd party criticise Nintendo and not say something like that?  Have you ever heard any legitimate criticism of Nintendo?  I'd like to hear it so I dont think of you as a mouth piece for a company that doesn't know you exist.  

Serious question here, have you ever heard a 3rd party criticise Nintendo and not say something like that?  Have you ever heard any legitimate criticism of Nintendo?  I'd like to hear it so I dont think of you as a mouth piece for a company that doesn't know you exist.  

Third parties often pick the worst reasons to criticize Nintendo, i've seen. Their criticisms in this case are the same tired, trite points that have been lobbed at Nintendo for decades now, and yet hold no more water than a seive, but as they are constantly repeated, are unfortunately taken as gospel by the industry and gamers alike.

Nintendo has problems, yes, but not these, and the liars (Bethesda) and thieves (Gearbox) have no real right to speak on the matter.

If I were a third party, now, i'd hit Nintendo for their advertising on Wii U. Structurally, there's nothing preventing third parties from succeeding on Wii U (which is why the arguments put forth here are total crap), but Nintendo seems to have a general lethargy and a very confused message that isn't helping consumers to understand exactly what you can and can't do with it. Nintendo's wasting a lot of opportunities here.

Now, Bethesda happens to be a personal pet peeve of mine, and i will fully admit to refusing to listen to them as a matter of course. Gearbox, however, i can't see why Pitchford's not in jail and the company hasn't been disbanded yet.

Neither Sony nor MS started off with the perfect online system, they've grown over time and the same will happen with Wii U. Given its current state and its previous one though it's doing quite well. It jumped leaps and bounds over its last incarnation and it's already rumored that they'll fix the unified service "issue" with the addition of the service they announced where you would be able to purchase games for your Wii U and 3DS from a PC or cell phone. If that rumor proves true, which I hope it does, that's one of the most significant complaints taken care of. But I don't imagine most people ever have to transfer accounts outside of their system breaking and Microsoft HAD to make their accounts transferable. The systems failure rate, like with RROD, made this a real concern. I've gone through at least three Xbox 360's, sent one in twice, and two PS3's but I've only ever needed one Wii. It still works just fine. Nintendo makes more reliable hardware, so I don't imagine it'd have been a major concern..

Third parties often pick the worst reasons to criticize Nintendo, i've seen. Their criticisms in this case are the same tired, trite points that have been lobbed at Nintendo for decades now, and yet hold no more water than a seive, but as they are constantly repeated, are unfortunately taken as gospel by the industry and gamers alike.

Nintendo has problems, yes, but not these, and the liars (Bethesda) and thieves (Gearbox) have no real right to speak on the matter.

If I were a third party, now, i'd hit Nintendo for their advertising on Wii U. Structurally, there's nothing preventing third parties from succeeding on Wii U (which is why the arguments put forth here are total crap), but Nintendo seems to have a general lethargy and a very confused message that isn't helping consumers to understand exactly what you can and can't do with it. Nintendo's wasting a lot of opportunities here.

Now, Bethesda happens to be a personal pet peeve of mine, and i will fully admit to refusing to listen to them as a matter of course. Gearbox, however, i can't see why Pitchford's not in jail and the company hasn't been disbanded yet.