{"id":30304,"date":"2012-01-07T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30304"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:31:39","slug":"pachter-wii-u-will-face-limited-third-party-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30304-pachter-wii-u-will-face-limited-third-party-support","title":{"rendered":"Pachter: “Wii U will face limited third-party support”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the rather underwhelming sales of the Nintendo 3DS<\/a>, and Nintendo<\/a> enduring a very poor financial year, the company needs the Wii U to be a success. Unfortunately, Wedbush Securities analyst and crystal-ball gazer Michael Pachter is skeptical about Nintendo\u2019s likelihood to capture a decent share of the market. He attributes this impending failure to a lack of support from third-party developers.<\/p>\n

Talking to IndustryGamers, Pachter said, “Nintendo has to simply stop living in the past in 2012. They had a great deal of success since 1985 by making proprietary hardware and supporting it with proprietary software. They attracted third party support based upon the large installed base they generated for their hardware. They appear to me to be confident that ‘if they build it, third parties will support it’, but I don\u2019t think that is the case for Wii U<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“By trying to be ‘different’ with the tablet controller, they have complicated game design for developers, who can\u2019t figure out if the Wii U will ultimately support only one or multiple controllers. Nintendo made the device sufficiently different that they are all but assured of limited third party launch support, which ultimately will lead to modest hardware sales.”<\/p>\n

“They should stop relying upon the strategy that got them here, as it appears to no longer be working. I think their resolution should be to look outside of Nintendo for leadership in the areas of digital downloads, a user-friendly online interface and multiplayer gaming.”<\/p>\n

Ouch. This definitely isn\u2019t what you want to hear if you\u2019re in Nintendo\u2019s shoes, as Pachter has an uncanny knack of being right all the time. He\u2019s certainly right about one thing \u2013 \u201cbad games\u201d is a very fast way to sink your console, and Nintendo needs to be very cautious of this.<\/p>\n

Source: IndustryGamers<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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