BanjoPickles wrote:With all due respect, that mindset has never made any sense to me. Why not have both, or want both on your console? The Wii U, frankly, felt like an empty console without it. Where would the NES/SNES have been without third-party support? Sure, they would have still had Zelda, Metroid, Mario, and so forth, but they wouldn't have had Mega Man, or Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Contra, Bionic Commando, Dragon Quest, Street Fighter II, etc. Third parties ARE important, and part of what is somewhat aggrivating is that Wii U had top flight first party titles and still failed.
And I think that you're wrong, at least when it comes to Nintendo's current practices. They ARE doing more to cater to third parties now than they have in---well, perhaps in forever.
A great example of third party being important was the Sega Dreamcast not having EA and EA later dropping Wii U only after 4 titles hurt both systems. Now for the Nintendo Switch almost a full year in for the system being out, both EA and Activision have been non-existent on the console which is rather unfortunate for two of the biggest third party companies in the market. And to make matters worse both of them where official Nintendo Switch 3rd party partners:
http://i.imgur.com/GwvnVI9.png and have treated the Nintendo Switch like the Wii U! Other 3rd parties on the list such as 505 Games (big indie game publisher), Arc System Works (bringing BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle the first for the series on Nintendo sense the 3DS BlazBlue games), Bandai Namco (likely to bring Dragon Ball FighterZ in the future, and possibly to help out Metroid Prime 4 and a possible new Ridge Racer game), Bethesda (a company that used to do nothing on Nintendo is going all out with Skyrim and Doom and the soon to be released Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and more to come), From Software (Dark Souls), Frozenbyte (Indie dev), Grasshopper (the new No More Heroes game), Hamster (Arcade Archives and NEO GEO Arcade Archives games), Intie Creates (Gunvolt and Blaster Master), Koei Tecmo (doing many games for the system), NIS (another company that was mostly non-existent on Nintendo is also going all out recently with many niche Japanese games for the system), Platinum Games (Bayonetta), Sega (Sonic and a big support), Square Enix (the most support from that company sense the SNES days back when many of the companies where separate Squaresoft, Enix, etc.), Starbreez Studios (Payday 2), Take-Two (the return of Rockstar games and NBA 2K and WWE), telltale, THQ Nordic (also now owns Koch Media/Deep Silver and THQ is big with Nintendo sense the NES days.) TTGames (Lego games and has done more then its parent WB Games), Ubisoft (Mario and Rabbids the most successful 3rd party game for the system.) And companies that have not done as much have potential to do more such as Atlus (Shin Megami Tensei V and a big Localization support for Japanese games and close Nintendo supporter), Capcom (Mega Man stuff this year, possible Ace Attorney games for the Switch), Konami (Super Bomberman R did well so that gives hope), Level 5, Marvelous, telltale, etc.
BanjoPickles your thoughts on EA and Activision ignoring the Nintendo Switch like the Wii U?