Not exact matches
You can't decide what people like, or even if the
game is gonna be any good, I think it probably will though, the best thing about other platforms is variety, the Wii U doesn't have that, if Bayonetta 2 doesn't sell, I wouldn't be surprised,
as the first Bayonetta wasn't really
appealing to most people and did pretty poorly, Nintendo need to bankroll all kinds of different genres, though this is exclusive, don't expect it to do better than most 3rd
party multiplatform
games.
This has become a perpetual cycle of decline — Microsoft don't green light products that might have
appeal in Japan, the Xbox One fails to sell well in that territory, third
party publishers don't see it
as a viable platform to release their
games on so the console continues to sell poorly.
Part of the
appeal of the Nintendo Switch is its ability to shift from console to handheld experiences instantly, and if enough third -
party developers make
games for the system, it could essentially overthrow the necessity of buying other platforms; the Switch could stand
as the choice system that can run Nintendo's iconic titles alongside third -
party titles.
The previous generation was a rough one for Japanese third
party publishers; faced with the triple onslaught of an en masse migration of Japanese audiences mobile devices, the struggles of HD development, and the rise of western development for consoles, Japanese developers found themselves hopelessly outmatched
as they tried to keep up, ultimately mostly disappointing long time fans due to misguided
games and entries in long running series that were made with some attempt to
appeal to a larger, global audience.
Rare sought out a partnership with Nintendo
as a second -
party developer and
appealed to them with their work at Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the field of pre-rendered three - dimensional graphics in animated sprite form, and Nintendo consented to Rare developing a new
game centered on Donkey Kong using this technology.
With the recent announcements of third -
party, hardcore M - Rated titles such
as L.A. Noire, No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again, DOOM, and Wolfenstein II, it seems
as if Nintendo is trying to ditch the «overabundance of kid - friendly shovelware
games» image that so haunted the Wii's legacy for one that
appeals more to the hardcore gaming crowd.