Unspoken_Request said:
I think about it this way: an anecdote from ONE anonymous guy or the DOZENS of people giving their praise openly, including people from small indie studios. When smalltime devs like Yacht Club Games, Wayforward, Eden Industries, etc are able to get support from Nintendo with no issue I very much doubt far larger companies would have trouble getting Nintendo's attention.
You're not talking about some starving artists here, you're talking about HUGE companies worth hundreds of millions if not outright BILLIONS of dollars. And these guys expect a handout? No, that is NOT how things are supposed to work in the real world. If that is how the game is played then don't play it. In fact, burn it to the ground while you're at it considering how rotten and rigged that is. They care about 3rd parties, but they are NOT going to be their dogs.
I'm going to tell you EXACTLY what's going to happen with Nintendo and 3rd parties: 3rd parties will just keep holding out, thinking that they can get Nintendo to give them some of that enormous war chest. But Nintendo won't. Instead they're going to learn how to become more self-sufficient. They're just going to expand, start filling in other niches they haven't really messed with before, making their 1st party lineup even more diverse, and thus becoming even stronger as a brand with it ending with 3rd parties being STUNNED that Nintendo did that. How do I know this? History. The N64, the Gamecube, the Wii, even their handhelds made them utilize that kind of strategy. If 3rd parties are going to act like assholes then screw 'em, make up their lack of effort by redoubling their own. You'd think that 3rd parties would recognize the pattern by now, but it seems that no matter how many times it repeats itself they're still shocked by it.