BeElite said:
Ehhh their failure with 3rd parties has more to do with them being who they are then with hardware sales. They are closed minded act arrogant they make hardware that does not makes sense for any one but them self's and are way to xenophobic for the globalized gaming market of today.
Nintendo by their own actions alone has cultivated a toxic environment where people just don't want to work with them and for good reasons. Why work with them when you have sony or ms hell both and pc and to an extent mobile as alternatives. |
Pretty much this.
Combined with the fact that Nintendo focuses much more on the family/kids market, and they are reasonably well supported by third parties who make those types of games -- LEGO, Disney, Skylanders, Just Dance, etc. are pretty much staples on the Wii/Wii U.
But if I'm a deveoper of Grand Theft Auto or Assassin's Creed or Destiny, why would should I go out of my way to support a Nintendo platform? There's a demographic issue here too.
One of the problems Nintendo has is kids will play whatever ... in fact they often prefer a Sony/MS console because they want what their older siblings are playing, not a 'kids console'. But teens/adults are much more picky. No adult other than Wily Wonka would buy a purple cable box or DVD player, so why did Nintendo think that would work with a game console?
Even the people who say "well adults watch Pixar movies too!", well sure ... maybe like once every 2 years or so. How many adults watch Pixar/animated movies as their primary moving going choice? Probably less than 1%. This part of Nintendo's problem as well, I think even a generic console called "Console X" with a dull grey box and minimal marketing would still outsell a Nintendo console, just because a lot of the gaming audience just wants a "neutral" game console, they want an appliance, not a something that skews too much towards seeming like a toy.
