Nintendo Doesn't Deserve 3rd Party Support Nor is Entitled to It
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NES
•Limited Developers Games
•Strong Armed Retailers
•Monopolized the Industry
•Unfair Business Practices
•Guilty of Price Fixing
•Nintendo made Namco's Boss Publically apologize for criticizing Nintendo's ways
SNES
•Lets be serious. This system only saw support due to
Nintendo's marketshare
•Developers were more than happy to see Sega come in and challenge Nintendo with the Genesis
•Thus the Genesis sold more in Europe and even North America until they moved on to their failed CD/32X
N64
•Expensive Carts
•Expensive Development Cost
•High Royalty Fees
•Remember $80 Games
•Purposely Made the System Hard to Develop for
•Mass Exodus from Nintendo towards Sony. The developers Hardware Manufacturer
Gamecube
•Delayed Development Kits
•No Urgency to Gain Support
•Not approaching 3rd Parties to make gamecube games
•Expectations for 3rd Parties to come to them
•No intention to maximize developers on the system
•Non-Belief in overwhelming 3rd Party Support
•Charging Higher Licensing Fees
•Shortage of Development Kits
•Shortages Six Months After Gamecube Launch
•Yamauchi Calling 3rd Parties "Useless Companies"
•Criticizing 3rd Parties for porting AAA games to multiple consoles
•Felt PS2 wasn't a threat
Wii
•Didn't embrace HD
•Didn't embrace Online
•Last Gen Hardware
•Sure it crafted a large casual non-gaming niche for itself
•But there's a reason why the Wii is dead while the 360/PS3 are still getting game to this today
•Wolfenstein the New Order
Wii U
•For all the profits they made with the Wii U they still refuse to correct their issues
•Weak System
•Weak 3rd Party Support
•Weak Online
•No focus on advertisement
•Created a system without developers in mind
•They literally put a system out on the market and thought people were just going to make games for it