| WiteoutKing said: Wrong again. The Atari had buttloads of games sold on it, vast amounts of which were unlicensed. It nearly collapsed the video game market. Quantity does not beget quality. |
Imagine if you walked into a store today and saw an XBox 360 display with "Gears of War" right next to "The Gears of War" and "Gears of the War Machine" do you think that it would be easy for someone to pick out which was the good game from the piece of crap? Most unlicenced games were bug filled third rate clones of popular games which made it impossible for parents (and consumers in general) to find the games they were looking for.
Since Nintendo created the modern licence based system there has always been a corelation between the system which sells the best and the system with the strongest third party support ... Generally speaking, third party publishers follow system sales which means that (typically) strong third party sales are a result of high system sales and not the cause.
