Sounds like you're a bit caught up in silly conspiracy theories. I don't think so, the simple reason that EA is being cautious, considering that all of Nintendo's recent consoles have featured weak specs and missing features, making them unable to handle the same games on competing consoles. If Nintendo wants big publishers to produce games on their hardware, they need to do a better job designing that hardware, and stop focusing on gimmicks. It's really not more complicated than that.

seriously, brah?

If it makes sense financially, EA will do it. If it doesn't, they wont. Mystery solved.

japanese game makers only support japanese consoles so why cant it be the other way around. Also the reason ea and most third party developers didnt suport the wiiu is because nintendo is crappy when it comes to third party relations so its not just ea

If Nintendo wants 3rd party support, they need start proving their system can compete with the other two. However, with the NX delay and the WiiU's drought, it seems like there's little hope for 3rd party support. ;)

its business.

if you were a game developer and had to feed and clothe yourself, pay your rent, feed your family etc, how would you invest your money?

would you publish your game on the console with a large install base, with gamers who prove they will most likely purchase your game based on past sales..

or, would you throw your money down the drain by publishing your game on a console with a tiny install user base whos gamers persistently ignore your titles. plus the console is not even adequately powerful enough to release your game in its full glory, instead you have to gimp it beyond recognition.

this is why EA and the vast majority of devs will not be on board the NX or any other nintendo console. history proves me right

you cant blame EA.

"They'll support it "If it makes sense."
Translated: "If Nintendo greases our palms and kisses our ass." ????

Buddy, they are a business, it must make sense for them to agree to support it. If they can't make money on it, they have no ode to Nintendo to produce content on their platform.

That is like telling a retail store (Nintendo) to have freezers to house our products as vendors (3rd party) if they want our business.

You can see it as "kisses our ass", but how on earth do you think Walmart and Target get vendors that have frozen goods? Are you really going to be the stupid retail store saying "we won't kiss their ass"?

Soooooooooooo how can they do business with you, if you won't do business with them? I don't think Nintendo is at liberty to be telling 3rd party what is accessible for support. 3rd party doesn't need to support Nintendo platforms, NINTENDO needs 3rd party support to successes, The ball is in their court, to actually bring functions to their platform to support 3rd party wishes.

Its why PS4 has 8 gigs of ram and x86, its why 360 added 512mb of ram when Epic suggested it. Those moves are why both those companies are getting 3rd party support. The work WITH 3rd party to make platforms, NOT against.

If you are going to make a store and you know you need vendors, you must create an atmosphere that allows vendor's products to function, be marketed well etc. If you feel this isn't the job of the retail store or Nintendo as a console maker, buddy.......retail stores like Walmart and Target (console makers like Sony and MS) will be GLAD to point out exactly why they are better then you. It happens all the time. If you really think they can bully their way with 3rd party, ask the Wii U how that process went with them.

If you are a vendor for ice cream and 1 retail store has a freezer in all stores and another retail store which has less locations states to bring you're own....which one are you REALLY going to go to? So spend MORE MONEY for the retail store that has less or spend less money with the retail store that has more locations and freezers available?

Its pretty simple bud. If you want to do business with someone, seek what they want. Getting someone something the want, will ultimately get you what you want. It is a very basic, key staple to doing business.

http://www.amazon.com/How-W...

Please read this book! lol, read it when I was in middle school, had to read it again when I was getting my BA in business. Its helped me countless times, a chapter exist that is solely about helping others get what they want. Don't focus on what you "Nintendo" wants, from Nintendo's prospective, the must focus on what 3rd party wants if they wish to do business. You don't walk into a car dealership asking how much commission the dealer will get as that is irrelevant to you, you are asking the miles, price, model of car etc. You are asking something that is relevant TO YOU! Thus why would the dealer only talk about what they want? They are not the customer now are they?

To be fair, Sega's IP's didn't really have the strength to last as long as Nintendo's does without third party support.
That's not to say that Sega's IP's were bad; they just couldn't carry as many consoles solo into the future as Nintendo's does on a regular basis.
Heck, even with the Wii U, Nintendo has made profit instead of staying in the red, due to no longer selling at a loss.

Having said that, I still feel that third party is important to the NX's success, but moreso in the realm of exclusives and less well-known titles, rather than big AAA multiplats that gamers have already trained themselves to buy on everything BUT Nintendo's systems, such as Battlefield.

For instance; Imagine an HD remake compilation of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga, OG Saga: Endless Frontier, and OG Saga Endless Frontier EXCEED.
They're all excellent JRPG's with AMAZING sound-tracks and lovable characters, and the stories and combat are really interesting.
Giving those three an HD make-over from 2D models into 3D ones, getting both English and Japanese VA, and letting the player choose the battle music that plays regardless of which version they play, would all be an AMAZING project that Nintendo could DEFINITELY make big waves out of if they released it onto the NX during its first year.
And given Atlus's run with Nintendo over the years, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to convince them to agree to such a project, especially if it were on Nintendo's dime.

Oh, and here's a little treat, just to demonstrate how good the music can get in the series:
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"Ninty can court publishers" Not really. What publishers and developers want are pretty much the same, dependable hardware powerful enough to support their concepts, easy enough to not be costly, in a format that allows them to easily port to.

That can be done without Nintendo ever needing to um "court publishers" they are coming because of what is happening under the hood, not because Nintendo is convincing them of something. They are coming because something is in it for them business wise. its as simple as that.

Are you not factoring that those same publishers mentioned "Take 2,Bethesda,Warner Brothers" etc also didn't work on Wii U for the exact same reasons EA isn't? lol

" I was a Sega console fan for 15 years and that strategy never worked." agreed, they must seek to work with, not against.

They are correct to when you factor just how much software they move. EA pretty much can decide a console generation if it came down to it.

ie Dreamcast, Wii U lol

If EA went PS or XB exclusive, by default the other platform would fail. You are talking about a platform having Madden, Fifa, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Titanfall, etc as exclusives. It would bury its competition over night. Regardless of how one personally feels about EA, they can't disregard they are one of the top publishers in gaming regarding sales.

When you have someone like EA getting revenue at like 4.5 billion a year, its something to take note of. They have the power to shift a consoles failure or success.

What they don't realize is that Nintendo can only build an audience for first party software.
They could have PS4-level numbers of consumers, and it still wouldn't do the third parties any good if those numbers were formed because of Nintendo's first party.

Third parties need to put in the effort to make NX owners WANT their games, by making their games worth getting on NX.
The only thing Nintendo can do to help them is to give them a powerful system, but it's going to take more than power for third parties to make a profit.

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It didn't work out for Wii U, because Nintendo left their first year of that system's life almost entirely to third parties.
You can't say the Wii U is an example of first party not carrying a Nintendo system, when there wasn't enough first party present, compared to the number of third party multiplats, to affect that sort of change, so your entire "example" is complete BS right from the get-go.

If anything, the Wii U proved that third parties have lost their touch at making their multiplat games sell to a whole new fanbase that doesn't ALREADY love their games through their experiences on OTHER platforms.

Also, as to your other BS response:
ROFL.
Arkham Knight didn't come to Wii U because their first attempt at making a Batman game sell on the system failed.
Nothing more, and nothing less.
There was nothing about that stupid car that would have forced them to keep it off the Wii U; even if they had had to lower the resolution a bit, they still could have fit that game onto the Wii U if they had tried, Batmobile and all.

You keep bringing up new multiplats and power, while entirely IGNORING the fact that IT WAS LAST GEN PORTS THAT FAILED TO SELL THE WII U TO GAMERS.
And you cannot blame that on the power of the system, because the system HANDLED LAST GEN PORTS JUST FINE when the developers showed some competence at their craft.

They didn't need PS4 level tools to make PS360 games run on Wii U; the system was powerful enough to handle them.

THEY STILL DIDN'T SELL BECAUSE THIRD PARTIES SCREWED UP.
That one single point, and the fact that you can't wrap your head around it, shuts down your entire post.

You're excusing piss-poor development on the part of third parties, and using that piss-poor development as an excuse for why they didn't bring anything else to the Wii U other than those ports.

FFS, sit the F down. LOL!

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm

But all of the great games have been made by humans

One is by choice, the other is a feature.