archbrix said:
1. What missteps did Nintendo make with the SNES? They had all of their major franchises including a fantastic 2D Mario and Mario Kart, not to mention great 3rd party support. Remember that home consoles weren't used to seeing 100m selling systems yet... 2. This I can agree with to a degree, especially about the balance board, but one could argue that we did see ideas expanding off of those games, they just weren't good enough or different enough to appeal to those who were sold on Wii Sports/Fit. Games like Wii Music, Carnival Games and tons of other 3rd party shovelware are essentially trying to appeal to the expanded audience, but perhaps the desire for those market expanding games just wasn't there from a longevity standpoint. 3. Here, what you say is certainly possible, but there's so many people who assume that Nintendo automatically means little to no 3rd party support, and that this will never change. Why? Look at the NES compared to the Sega Master System and Atari 7800. I don't think anyone would argue that. But the SNES too had nice, healthy support from 3rd parties. Probably the biggest 3rd party game at the time, Street Fighter 2, absolutely obliterated the Genesis and TurboGrafx version's sales on SNES. If Project Cafe is truly being created as very developer-friendly, there's no reason why we won't see third party support return to Nintendo. It's even rumored that Rockstar has a development kit for Project Cafe and is planning GTA 5 as a possible launch game. It won't be exclusive, but if Nintendo gets to unveil the game for their E3 conference it would be a huge coup for Project Cafe and speak volumes as to what 3rd party support could look like. |
Just having a 2D Mario game at launch isn't enough, you have to have games that follow up that momentum, it took them years to release a game like DKC, not a way to build momentum.
Saying that games are created for the expanded audience doesn;t mean the expanded audience thinks so, Wii Music was a total flop, the expanded audience didn;t want it.
We'll see, but I wouldn't hold my breath about third party support