bafrali said:
I am truly baffled by the responses in this thread. Do people really think that there is a hatred campaign going against Nintendo? You might like to think that Nintendo's platform can only make them more money but your promise to buy a whole one copy doesn't exactly help nor do the recent sales of the third party titles.
My problem with that line of thinking is that I don't recall many 3rd parties actively trying to sell their products on Nintendo systems. Of course I'm just being hyperbolic when it comes to companies actively despising Nintendo. What I really believe is that 3rd parties are IDIOTS. I don't know whether this is because they've gotten so used to selling to one demographic over the years or that their brains just stall when it comes to Nintendo systems, but they just REALLY don't display any sort of intelligence or logic when it comes to Nintendo systems.
For example, complaining that their titles never sell. Whenever I've seen 3rd parties (mostly Western) throw that out I've noticed one of two elements. 1) The game was poorly/cheaply made, 2) If said game WAS good, it was lazily thrown out with no hype. With the former the game would have failed regardless. You can't throw out shovelware and expect it to sell. Dress it up all you want, but crap is CRAP. In addendum, we also had the myriad titles who outright gimped themselves by removing content or being stupid in another way. One of the most egregious was Sniper Elite that outright cut out EVERYTHING but the single player. It was rewarded how it should have been: by bombing. Another was Mass Effect 3 that didn't release any DLC post release and was of course released around the same time as the Mass Effect Trilogy. I'm sorry, but how exactly did they ME3 WASN'T going to bomb when they did that? Or how about Arkham Origins that cut out multiplayer (though in all honesty Wii U owners might have dodged a bullet with that)? Why exactly should these products have gotten A+ results when clearly there was only C- effort?
With the latter (hype) that seems to just be basic logic. People whine about Nintendo's marketing, but 3rd parties' marketing on Nintendo systems is abysmal if it even exists at all. Of course aren't going to buy your product if they aren't aware it exists on the system. Seriously, how much have 3rd parties hyped ANY sort of product on Nintendo consoles? When was the last time? When did Rayman Legends, Assassin's Creed, Arkham Origins, or any other 3rd party title ever advertise their Wii U features or that they were on the Wii U at all except for the TINY Wii U logo? The only two I can think of are Scribblenauts and Deus Ex (and the later made the decision of delaying itself to try and make some quickie ports on the 360 and PS3. And both those versions bombed). Everything seems to out of its way to ignore the Wii U.
So, that's what irritates me: the lack of logic and common sense when it comes to the Wii U. I don't know WHAT it is, but it seems that every time a 3rd party tries to make a release on the 3DS or the Wii U (with the exception of Japanese companies like CAPCOM, Atlus, etc) something in their heads just stops working and suddenly all they can think is "DERP!" It just baffles me. It should not be this difficult to do the bare basic of selling a game. How exactly is it LOGICAL for 3rd parties to expect sales when they do stuff this stupid? I don't see how in any way, shape, or form Nintendo are at fault for 3rd parties' failing to sell their games.