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psrock on 02 December 2009
c0rd said:
psrock said:
How does Nintendo entice 3rd party developers?

MH3 is only on the Wii because the mess the PS3 has been, For all the money Nintendo makes, they never try to get any big games or try to. They don't really help with advertisement unless the developer does it themselves. In fact, they have been worst than the other two.

Nobody compared Nintendo's support to Sony or Microsoft. It was only said in the OP that they've done more this gen than they have in the past (not sure if that's true, but XiaoMay put up some examples).

Nintendo doesn't help the third parties as much as the other two, because it doesn't need to. I doubt Sony or Microsoft would either, if their lineup was as strong as Nintendo's.

Yet the reason for the lack of effort.

You tell me if Nintendo wanted MWF2 on the Wii, it would not happen.



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Xxain on 02 December 2009
c0rd said:
psrock said:
How does Nintendo entice 3rd party developers?

MH3 is only on the Wii because the mess the PS3 has been, For all the money Nintendo makes, they never try to get any big games or try to. They don't really help with advertisement unless the developer does it themselves. In fact, they have been worst than the other two.

Nobody compared Nintendo's support to Sony or Microsoft. It was only said in the OP that they've done more this gen than they have in the past (not sure if that's true, but XiaoMay put up some examples).

Nintendo doesn't help the third parties as much as the other two, because it doesn't need to. I doubt Sony or Microsoft would either, if their lineup was as strong as Nintendo's.


wait....what? so you agree about the lack of third party help on NINTENDO's part?

Mr Khan on 02 December 2009
trestres said:
The only solution to this would be Nintendo beinging back the seal of quality, or limiting the number of games a pulbisher can release yearly.

Of course, Nintendo will never do such thing, because every game a 3rd party company sells, means more money to Nintendo themselves. By doing that, the amount of 3rd party SW would decrease dramatically, and as we all know, Nintendo cares about money, not happy customers as we would like it to be.

Not an option. Re-instituting the seal of quality would simply give 3rd parties another excuse to leave Nintendo behind. The shovelware would go away, but nothing would come to replace it.



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Xxain on 02 December 2009
Mr Khan said:
trestres said:
The only solution to this would be Nintendo beinging back the seal of quality, or limiting the number of games a pulbisher can release yearly.

Of course, Nintendo will never do such thing, because every game a 3rd party company sells, means more money to Nintendo themselves. By doing that, the amount of 3rd party SW would decrease dramatically, and as we all know, Nintendo cares about money, not happy customers as we would like it to be.

Not an option. Re-instituting the seal of quality would simply give 3rd parties another excuse to leave Nintendo behind. The shovelware would go away, but nothing would come to replace it.


A less strict Seal? or a selective Seal?

LordTheNightKnight on 02 December 2009

The seal won't do anything.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 02 December 2009

^Most people probably wouldn't even notice



 

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trestres on 02 December 2009

A seal would help those developers who make an effort spur the sales of their games. The problem is the sea of shovelware and the limited shelf space. But it's not like many made real efforts so far. I'm only concerned for those devs that did try but found their games to be covered by shovelware at retail.

People would notice that the amount of crap games lowered.



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LordTheNightKnight on 02 December 2009

trestres, so you mean use it for the marketing purposes it was originally meant for? If so, I agree with that.



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trestres on 02 December 2009

Yes, that could be the case. That, or limit the amount of games a publisher can publish within a year. So that they will put an actual effort in their games, rather than rushing products and trying to release as many as possible in the least amount of time.



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Mr Khan on 02 December 2009

I'm not saying it's a bad idea under that logic, the issue is that publishers would go apeshit if Nintendo even suggested that they were thinking of re-instituting it.

 

Nintendo would need a lot more control over the industry before such an action could be viable. Third parties would just leave, and refuse to deal with it.



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