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« on: April 21, 2012, 07:36:58 PM »
I must agree with them. Nintendo is a fantastic company they make innovative consoles and amazing games. They are personally my favourite gaming company.
However, they have an outdated third party business model and so far their online system has been a dud. The Virtual Console service has been amazing, but Nintendo approached WiiWare in the same manner which was a very bad move that cannot happen with the Wii U. With WiiWare developers do not get paid until they have sold a certain amount of units of software, and they have to develop around a 40 MB limitation.
For the Wii U Nintendo should develop a percentage based pay system that seeks to encourage third-party developers. They should make it so that Nintendo takes 10% of revenues made from a game or app until lets say 3000 units have been sold, than they will only take 5%. They should also lighten the restrictions on developers in order to get more indie game developers. Furthermore, 40 MB is a stupid limitation (which has been thankfully removed in the 3DS eShop) for making games, the Wii U should have that cap increased significantly (which is probably will)
Also, Nintendo needs to do better at making sure third-party games are properly advertised. One reason why I believe (this is not scientific just based on my opinion and opinion of friends and family members) people tend to not buy third-party games on Nintendo platforms is because the library of third-party titles is not the healthiest, there are a lot of over-priced waggle-fest games that great titles like Zack and Wiki get lost in it, as gamers we of course know better and we can search for better titles to buy but the average customer who is looking to pickup a game does not. In order to promote better titles being made Nintendo could once again focus on its Seal of Quality, which actually meant the game was of an acceptable quality during the NES days, and Nintendo outright rejected games that were not of quality. An easier approach (and one that does not reek havoc with anti-trust violations) is that they can better promote third-party titles.
They should also developers some of the things that they want to entice end users. For example, a unified network service (which is being done with Nintendo Network) complete with chatting capability and online capabilities. They should also create a universal achievement application with services like Facebook integrated to it (they can do this in a Nintendo Network app). As for apps developers, Nintendo could try to approach some and get them to develop some apps for the 3DS and Wii U so that as end users we have a catalogue of applications as well.
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