why is that awesome?
It pleases you that others can't play a 3rd party game on their console of choice?
Also does anyone find it wierd how nintendo is changing their direction with the wiiU?
I thought Nintendo were only about family friendly games.
I would submit that a reason why people are happy isn't to deny others a game, but because this is the kind of bold steps Nintendo needs to be taking. The critical thing to understand, that so many people just don't seem to be getting, is this:
Bayonetta was dead.
Nobody was getting it, anywhere.
Nintendo apparently saved the game. Nobody else was interested. Now to be fair, with how people tend to think, we really would have seen a similar reaction if say Sony or Microsoft had paid to take over funding Bayonetta and published it, as it would then still be exclusive to one console. But it would still be a situation of "either the game is exclusive or the franchise dies."
As for Nintendo's direction, this is what they said they were going to do when Wii U was first revealed. And this new perception of Nintendo as "casual" and "family only" is purely a meme from this generation.
Before the Wii, Nintendo straddled both sides. It was Nintendo who funded and published Eternal Darkness on Gamecube. Nintendo who supported initiatives like Resident Evil 4 on GC. And so forth. With Wii, Nintendo focused more on the expanded audience and people who don't play stereotypical hardcore games. This created the meme that Nintendo = casual/family only.
Wii U is actually restoring the balance Nintendo had previously moved towards. They seem to be making the correct motions now, to live up to the idea of content being balanced for all audiences. And to be truthful that's one thing that arguably only Nintendo could do, because Nintendo is the only company that takes seriously audiences other than 20-30 year old male North American gamers. Microsoft's constant 'casual pandering' with Kinect and avatars and family marketing comes off as insincere, cheap, and annoying because the products and games they put out towards those efforts are generally poor or castoffs. Nintendo will put AAA designers on making a game with Miis in it just as fast as they'll put them on making the next Zelda.
Of course, we also still have the powerful meme circulating that Wii U isn't a 'real' next gen console because it doesn't have the requisite CPU, because there are plenty of enthusiast gamers who even at this late date only judge generations by shader count. That noise is going to continue, there's nothing to be done about it.
But still, if Crisis Nintendo is Aggressive Nintendo, things are going to keep getting interesting. Especially if Wii U ends up becoming a home for what used to be mid-range Japanese games before the west turned things into "go big or go home, 10 million copies sold or your studio is shuttered" with every game.
