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S.T.A.G.E. said:
happydolphin said:

Great post. I will just say that even if the U had parity, the cube shows that that wouldn't matter, nor cause 3rd party main games (AC, Bioshock, etc.) to make a good sale on the Nintendo platform.

In other words, those 3rd party games don't matter when it comes to Nintendo consoles, so it doesn't matter either way.

The only case we haven't tested so far since the NES/SNES days is if Nintendo had both Wii-like success and parity on one same console. If/when that happened, how would main 3rd party games fare? I would argue/predict just as well as they did on Wii, to be fully honest (e.g. COD on Wii).


During the SNES/NES era, Nintendo had third party dominance. The genesis slowly built marketshare so it was hard for them to get games and so they had to build up first party in nearly all genres to battle with Nintendo.

I'm not sure how useful that is to the post I made. Do you believe that 3rd party main games (Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider) have any importance to Nintendo home console success?

Do you believe that a console with Wii-like success and parity would sell main 3rd party games, or need main 3rd party games? Do you believe that such a console is possible in today's market (e.g. is Wii-like success and parity possible for Nintendo?).