[Bond]

Originally posted by Shadow Fox
The industry can be pissed all they want, Nintendo is still the highest grossing developer in the world, and they've stayed this way by the "secrets" they're keeping. Now granted, alot of media giants and developers are mad about NCL not getting the word out about their third-party products, but it that anyone's fault but the developer? Nintendo does licensing, and quality assurance only for 3rd party devvers, not PR. The respective publishers of each devver (EA, THQ, Acclaim, Midway, etc) are the ones responsible for a game's promotion, NOT Nintendo.

Nintendo themselves as a first-party, as you may very well know, have no need for "PR", or early reviews/previews of games to help them sell, unlike 3rd and 2nd party devvers for other consoles. Nintendo sells games off its household name alone. Now, EA, Sega, and all the other big publishers have their own promotions/sales divisions, and it is their responsibility, not their console's licenser, to purchase/produce preview build software and hardware for press/feedback relations.

This is something I believe is being started by Microsoft spoiling the industry, since they still fund alot of their 3rd parties for promotion and marketing. Think about it; Sony was in the same spot Nintendo was in back in Fall 2000, but now PS2 dev kits are everywhere...but it took half a year to get to where they are now as far as media kit availabilty. Now that M$'s bankroll has spoiled developers and mainstream media alike by shipping dev kits everywhere (which they also counted as units sold to consumers ), Nintendo is being grilled for this after only 2.5 months in the market, and that is absolutely ludicrous.

Come what may, Nintendo has special "hard drives" in store for developers and media conglomerates, so as to cut down costs on GOD usage for its 3rd-parties, but I'm sure that will not be enough unless Nintendo themselves promote every 3rd party title as their own, just as Sony and Microsoft are now.

Just a little something I've noticed over the years...and it's sickening. At this rate, GamePro and IGN will start asking Nintendo for paychecks for giving rave reviews....

You are completely missing my point, I had this same discussion with Shadow Link.

My point is that, I don't want to know the endings to games and all the details, that is perfectly fine with me. But when Nintendo won't even supply it's own fansites and other magazines with a debug unit that is ludicrous. That is my point.