Nintendo tried "rolling out the red carpet" with 3rd parties on the Wii and withheld their own titles. The result of that is the game drought we now see before us. Nintendo reserved some seats at the table for 3rd parties, but the problem is they never showed up. So those seats were left empty and it ended up being a fairly lame party.
Nintendo shouldn't be jerks and do things that will drive 3rd parties away, but they shouldn't kiss their ass either. They should take a neutral approach where they leave the door open and send the invites but leave it at that.
I'm so glad you don't run Nintendo.
Nintendo sightly updated a 2nd/3rd(depending on the market) place last gen console with wiimotes AFTER Xbox360 had already blown it out of the water tech wise. 3rd parties weren't gonna be too enthusiastic about that.
Wii2 & 3DS solve both of those problems, but my guess is that Nintendo needs to stop trying to create "Dream Teams" by being stingy with Dev kits early on and not making it known and available to a majority of 3rd parties until after official announcements and several months before launch.
I understand why they might have done this in the past, such as trying to prevent leaks and only let the privileged few into the VIP clubhouse, rewarding those who participated last round and "incentivizing" others to hop on board to get in on the next big thing in a few years and whatnot, but then you can't expect everyone to be ready for launch, launch window and the rest of the year if they didn't have time to tinker with the hardware and get inspired by new features and available power and possible effects.
Nintendo's practices in the past mixed with Sony and MS's pandering of today has made it so that Nintendo needs to get back into the dating game and learn how to flirt and mingle all over again. They don't need to look like a desperate sucker by buying every girl in the bar a drink, but they've got to be willing to do what it takes to pursue the ones that they want.
If they gotta take R* out to a fancy Surf & Turf dinner, then so be it, as long as they end up in bed together, it's all worth it in the end. You can't just show up to the club in a new fancy red car and expect all the girls to just jump in on sight. And once you net all the popular ones, the smaller ones will follow.
So I say roll out the red carpet, send out all your invites early, announce your open bar, your DJ and all the A-list celebrities that are attending and make this a party to remember. You gotta spend money to make money, and the amount of money they would spend courting a few of the AAA devs would pale in comparison to the amount of money they would make from the fanfare that would come with those devs showing favorable support.
To everyone else, I guess I should have stated that I know IR light is not visible to the naked eye, which is why I mentioned only being able to see it using a camera. When I mentioned it being a different "color" I meant in a way that the camera would be able to tell which IR was which without mixing them up, not that we would be able to see it and know the difference.
Would different frequencies show up as different "colors" to the camera? Because I don't see how a camera would track individual controllers otherwise.