uran10 said:
Nintendo isn't a big part of the problem, the third party are. I might be one of those guys that cry conspiracy but seriously, do you expect year old ports to sell well? I don't. Especially if they run better on weaker hardware. Nintendo gave them HD graphics and its as easy to design for as a 360. Nintendo could give them the most powerful console ever and they wouldn't support them. Money hatting is dumb so that is out of the question. The only thing and i mean the only thing nintendo needs to do at this point is expand and grow. They should have started this last gen when they were making said money but it can't be helped now. They need to buy some developers and open more studios so they have more games in the pipeline. A lot of these "indie devs" are gonna make it big, and if nintendo sees potential they should partner with them. etc etc.
Long story short, Nintendo expansion = more games = more sales for console because less droughts. |
Tbh I kind of agree with this having watched the situation since the NES, Nintendo has made some mistakes yes but ultimately the are other factors in play and imo the main factor is that third parties want to feel like they're the ones in control of the industry and no one else, why because then they can do as they please and make it look like the consumer owes them and not the other way round. Sony and MS' approach give them that freedom but as seen this gen third parties are a bit too in over their heads in how things should be and actually make the license practices by Sega and Nintendo in the 80s look good.
It's not about hardware power or anything of the sort it's about wanting an industrial eco-system that suits themselves and Nintendo's platform don't offer that and never will because they simply can't as a dedicated gaming hardware company, this is why we're seeing loads of remasters to original new gen games, why the are microtransactions and questionable DLC practices like that in Evolve or the buy a continue in RE:R2's Raid Mode, why games are released incomplete or loaded with glitches etc... Make no mistake these publishers and developers would sooner turn on Sony or MS if another successful platform emerged that gave them even further liberties, trust me this group would never fully support a platform that drives an approach that gives platform holders more influence.
SE's President a while back highlighted a second problem in that many developers only want to develop an elite group of games they want to play rather diversify their talents and have a my way or the high way attitude to anything that doesn't fall in line with what they want, couple this with the toxic desire to try and turn everything into a AAA title with an inflated budget meaning the game needs loads of sales in the short term and you get an industry that will stick to its guns until another crash arrives to wake them up.
You're 100% right that even though it's a long term plan that will take a while Nintendo can only solve this if they expand and become even more self efficient then they are now with their first party, Nintendo are probably the biggest gaming company yes but they essentially need their first party team to become to creating software what large companies like Samsung/Toshiba are to electronic goods. If they can expand so that their quantity out put each year is comparable to a platform with Third Party they would have plugged a big hole.
