Though Nintendo had possibly the strongest showing when it came to in-house and second-party offerings, their lack of focus on the third-party shows a lack of understanding, or at least a reluctance to address, let alone fix, that as their main issue.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
With the amount of games coming to Wii U, I'm starting to feel like the lack of third party support is becoming less significant. Nintendo produced three new IPs this year, one of which is made by one of the great minds behind Ninja Gaiden. Beyond that they're clearly putting a lot of support into Wii U themselves. Kirby, Yoshi, Zelda, Star Fox, Mario Maker, Smash Bros.... that's a lot of games coming from a single publisher. Sure Nintendo doesn't have a lot of third party support but that doesn't mean that they have nothing.
That's why I have a PS4. If a major third party game skips the Wii U, I can pick it up for the Sony console. But damn, Nintendo did a fantastic job getting me excited for my Wii U for 2014 and especially 2015.
Shame Third party publishers don't feel the need to want to make games there. If they are willing to do a decent job on their ports and release them at the same time with the same features they might be surprised at how much more sales they might do.
No idea how Nintendo could lead with a game called "Splatoon" and proclaim it their next big IP.
Nintendo makes up for their lack of third party support with more first party games.
Third parties can't compete with Nintendos games. The user base buy nintendo consoles to play nintendo games. If you're a third party dev who wants to succeed on nintendos platfrom, you'll have to develop games that'd cater to the nintendo audience, not that pew pew stuff, and movie-like games.
I wonder how PS and Xbox would fare if third party games were exclusive to PC.
Nintendo has a lacking 3rd party catalog because 3rd parties have yet to see any reason to put real support behind the Wii U. With Nintendo busting out the first party titles the way they did at E3 and showcasing them with their ingenious Treehouse format, Nintendo is drumming up gamer support for the Wii U, which will in turn eventually entice 3rd party developers to support the Wii U as well.
I don't understand what is up everyone's butt this gen, especially journalists, that they think in such short term ways. This era of instant gratification is annoying and ridiculously stupid. Anything worthwhile is never easy and takes a lot of time and effort to accomplish, so give Nintendo time. As a matter of fact, give Sony and Microsoft time as well. This impatience shows a marked lack of understanding of the complexities of game development and just what is required to make the best games we want to play.