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Eddie_Raja on 29 July 2015
JWeinCom said:
Cause making games is difficult and expensive and entails financial risk?


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Skullwaker on 29 July 2015

They develop a hell of a lot of games, what are you talking about?

It's the fact that they get practically no 3rd party support (at least on the Wii U) that makes it seem like there's not much coming in, but that's not a fault of Nintendo's developers.



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MANUELF on 29 July 2015

I believe Nintendo make way more games a year than either Microsoft or Sony but they have two systems instead of one for them



Nautilus on 29 July 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
Nautilus said:
Ita not like they are not trying.They are supporting 2 systems, developing another AND making games for it.So actually its impressive Nintendo is even msnaging making the number of games it makes.And buying/making new studios cost money, so its not a matter of just go buying, it needs to check if its viable money-wise, and needs to find talents...


Well it is very clear that they should only have one system.

Thats obviosly not true.The lack of games on wii u is a consequence of lack of third parties, something nintendo needs to fix next gen.And dont say that nintendo wont get it because its nintendo, that is pure ignorance



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gabzjmm23 on 29 July 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
gabzjmm23 said:
if Nintendo has a 10000 employee and 70% of it is allocated to game development then they can produce enough IPs based on your year 1-3. But they aren't big enough. And $200 or less home console pricing won't be good for Nintendo.


Then they can kiss another gen goodbye if they continue with their same business model.


they already have plans for NX and we knew they already started developing something for NX.  We don't know what is NX and what feature that would captivate more people to buy NX. We might get a few great AAA IPs at launch and a steady stream of good Nintendo IPs at the first yea but everything is just speculation. So until we have concrete information we'll just wait and see.  So far, I'm just waiting for gaming news and what games interest me.  Then most of the time, I'm playing all the games that I have in my backlog. Those games can cover atleast 3 years worth of gaming hours for me. :D



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the_dark_lewd on 29 July 2015

Because they value quality over quantity? You can't increase your output AND delay games for a year until they're as good as you want them to be.



ihatefatkatz on 29 July 2015

Nintendo has put it in motion changes for a more efficient development environment. We'll see the results of these changes next gen.

But I agree, despite a valiant effort, Nintendo has to pick up the slack for the lack of third party games.



ShyGuy322 on 29 July 2015

Well...they develop far more games for it's consoles than Microsoft and Sony do. It's not even close really. The problem is, they don't have third party support and they don't develop enough games to compensate for it.



MoHasanie on 29 July 2015

Its not that easy. They are supporting 2 systems so there's only so much they can do. And they still are able to publish more games than Sony or MS.



    

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FloatingWaffles on 29 July 2015
gabzjmm23 said:
if Nintendo has a 10000 employee and 70% of it is allocated to game development then they can produce enough IPs based on your year 1-3. But they aren't big enough. And $200 or less home console pricing won't be good for Nintendo.


Yeah, I have absolutely no idea how anybody thinks this would be a good idea whatsoever.