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ItsaMii on 25 August 2008
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LordTheNightKnight said:
Mummelmann said:
Insane game prices, strange media solutions and poor relations with the game developers. The Wii actually has, in part at least, all three problems but it doesn't seem to have any negative effect at all.
I think maybe Ninty were just a little ahead of their time, is all.

 

It doesn't even have insane game prices in part. That problem is on the HD systems. As for relations, Nintendo has been rebuilding them.

@rol, the CD prices were not the icing. They were the main factor. N64 carts had a tiny profit margin compared to CDs. You're actually claiming that was just a minor reason? That's a pretty major one. As for Nintendo's policies, half of them were dropped due to court cases years before, so a lot of them could not have been a factor here. Nintendo wasn't perfect, but it's a fallacy that Nintendo's policies drove developers away from the N64.

The driving away was actually in the 16-bit era, when developers were giving support to the competition.

Even if it is not a fallacy, the opposite is not necessarily true (good relations get more 3rd party support). Sega was said to be the role model for the 3rd party treatment and the Saturn support was not much better than the N64. 3rd parties were not very reluctant to abandon the sinking PS3 or cut the initial good support for the PSP. Gaming market is momentum based and 3rd parties usually chose the safest route (or what they believe it is).



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"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."