I'm more of the opinion that most of the AAA development community built a userbase where adding in Nintendo platforms wasn't feasible. Nintendo games outsell most games even when their platform does shit. Games are also mostly multiplatform where you get the benefit of all the different ecosystems and it isn't just your sales on a Nintendo system vs Nintendo themselves. Now though? The market is massive and you compete with everyone on every device imaginable. Generations ago when software was often exclusive it could be reasoned that Nintendo's environment made it less ideal compared to other players since Nintendo as always overwhelming the stars of their own platform. I don't think the whole 'third parties are scared to compete with Nintendo' thing is real in the modern era tbh. The reality is undoubtedly closer to mismanagement at the higher levels and/or bad information provided to make decisions, as it is with most bewildering corporate decisions in other industries.

And it’s not like EA is completely absent, It Takes Two, Unravel 2 and Apex made it (albeit late, but that’s not unheard of), Fe and Lost in Random were day one… it’s just EA Sports and the current AAA blockbusters that are missing, which isn’t exactly totally unusual.Īs I’ve gotten older the “bias” or decade-long grudge/feud arguments do not persuade like they might have before, and “lazy devs” was never a thing. From what I have seen from Amazon data and what little we know of platform breakdowns from the time, it’s not as though Wii versions of non-FIFA sports games were doing all that well relative to the investment in them, so I can at least see them basing the decision on some actual real data, albeit antiquated. Click to expand.EA, I would legitimately believe, just don’t think it’s a good route to take.

Download little planet ps5