Kingshango
Veteran
Things can change. Remember it's business. it ain't nothing personal.
I know but I believe if ninty can get out of that holding onto the past mindset and maybe extend olive branches to other companies, maybe it can rekindle things...
its a longshot...I do also remember other japanese companies talking bout the arrogant disrespect nintendo had for them... burning bridges is not a good look nintendo..
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When I mean 3rd parties aint coming back, I mean that they wont get those BIG high budget AAA blockbuster and annual sports games that the PS4, PC and Xbone get.
WARNING, long ass post coming:
Activision might throw them a bone with Skylanders, Guitar Hero and some licensed game like Spiderman or something. Jury is out on Call of Duty since the last two games didn't make it to the Wii U even though they appeared on last gen consoles.
EA where the first 3rd party devs to throw Nintendo in the bushes before the Wii U came out so I think that particular "unprecedented partnership" is over. So no Madden, No Live, no Mass Effect, no FIFA, and no Need For Speed for Nintendo.
Ubisoft might give some scraps like Just Dance and Rayman related games but as far as their mature games go, Nintendo wont get them.
2K and Bethesda have never really worked with Nintendo (Bethesda put out a grand total of ONE game on the NES) and will likely never will.
WB will probably end up giving the NX a remastered version of Arkham Knight: The Whispers Edition

Jury is out on future Mortal Kombat games.
Unless Rockstar is planning on making another Bully or Table Tennis, Nintendo wont be seeing anything from them. NX handheld could get a San Andreas Stories tho

As for the Japanese 3rd parties, I suspect that Nintendo have already struck deals with them behind closed doors for months now, otherwise Square Enix wouldn't have blurted out that DQX and XI were coming to the NX.
Sega will give them Sonic games obviously.
Capcom will provide them with Monster Hunter and Ace Attorney. Jury is out on mainline Resident Evil and Street Fighter. However, Ryu's appearance in Smash 4 give me a tiiiiiinnny bit of hope that a Nintendo vs Capcom game could happen.
Square Enix, as said above, will provide the Dragon Quest games and are open to the possibility of Final Fantasy XIV appearing on the NX. Mainline Final Fantasy games on the otherhand...
Bandai Namco will continue to co develop Nintendo games.
Koei Tecmo/Team Ninja will probably make Hyrule Warriors 2 (or better yet Fire Emblem Warriors) and hopefully continue the Fatal Frame series.
And Level 5 will continue to make Professor Layton and Yokai Watch for Nintendo.
Konami, Silent Hills and Chapter 3.

I dunno about FROM Software since they've literally laughed at the possibility of a Souls game on a Nintendo console.
Then there's the indie scene, which seems stable compared to the relationship with the big western companies. Nearly Every Kickstarter title had a Wii U, 3DS version in the works. So I expect a ton of indie games heading toward the NX platforms.
So yeah Japanese and indie support seems to be straight but as far as those big western AAA games are concerned, I wouldn't hold my breath at all unless Nintendo gets the old Yakuza gang out of retirement and strong arm every single on of them.