Ubisoft, EA discuss their early mistakes in approaching the Wii

[LordTheNightKnight]

MontanaHatchet said:

Arius Dion said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

kylohk said:
I see you have to wait 3 years for the "2nd development cycle" to bear fruit. At least Shaun White etc. were decent efforts.

 

They were caught with their pants down. Note that the really great third party NES/Famicom games were about from 1987 onward, when the Famicom launched in 1984.

 

 Very good point.

Or, more realistically, video gaming was practically dead until the NES and most third parties were pretty wary about the idea of developing games.

 

 

Not the case. In Japan, gaming was still alive, and in the US, developers were trying to move to PC gaming, which had not crashed (at least not as bad as consoles and arcades).