superchunk on 22 February 2007
Lord N said:
When it comes to variety, Sony easily has more first and second party titles than either Nintendo or Microsoft.
Are you serious. Nintendo 1st / 2nd party titles are the most anticipated titles in the industry. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, alone account for more sales than all of the titles from PS you just listed.
Then you have pokemon and so many others it hurts my hands to try and type them all out. Both of the last two gen Nintendo machines were carried solely due to thier 1/2nd party ip's. There is noway MS or Sony could do that. Some argue that Nintendo's great 1/2nd party lineupe is actually a henderence because 3rd parties have a hard time competing on a Nintendo platform, whereas Sony's and MS's stuff is usually less stellar.
If Nintendo every dropped out of the hardware business whomever is left would be paying them HUGE royalties for these ip's.
Think about it. EA is the largest selling game publisher worldwide (barely), right. How many different platforms do they put thier ish on. like 10+?
Nintendo is the 2nd largest and they only have 3 (GB,DS,Wii) platforms to sell on. Good god man.
