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MontanaHatchet on 06 May 2009
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LordTheNightKnight said:
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).

Gamign was still alive...how? Even if it was still living, how many numbers did the Atari 2600 or the Colecovision have to brag about (I'm speaking of Japan)? And obviously PC gaming was doing decently, but the idea of developing for consoles was not appealing at the time, and the NES actually had to show it was successful for developers to make games for it. The NES took a long time to get third party efforts because it had to prove that console gaming was a good option, whereas the Wii had to prove that the change it gave was an appealing option.