XxSoulxX posted...
Blaming third parties when one of your biggest weaknesses is third parties relations is not a good solution. Just goes to show how out of touch Nintendo/Reggie is.
As someone who works for a third party...what he's saying seems pretty sensible here. The reason Nintendo platforms are attractive to develop for is that they do have a large install base (created by killer aps). If fewer people buy a system because there are no Nintendo games on it, then that's bad for us; we don't want to make games on that system.
Of course, the other reality is that the traditional console/handheld market is dieing. EA and Activision both had heavy layoffs in their console studios because console games just aren't the money maker they used to be. It's a bad time for Nintendo to take a risk and launch a system without any first-party software to see if third party software will magically become a killer app of their fanbase.
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