| mrstickball said: It depends. If there were more N-fanboys, yes. Simply and only for the fact that Nintendo systems have a much lower 3rd party tier ratio, and the more N-fanboys (as opposed to Sega, Sony or Microsoft) are rabbid about Nintendo software than if they were a Sony fanboy or Microsoft fanboy. |
You can't blame the nintendo fanboys (or loyalists, according to the definition in the initial post) for buying the best games. I think it is widely accepted that nintendo is the best maker of software, at least in some genres. So if you own a nintendo console and have the choice between a nintendo and a third party game, it is often the case that the nintendo game is better. that is why it gets the better sales too.
this is also caused by the fact that gc and n64 had a very poor third party support, which meant that there were just a few aaa third party games on these consoles. i don't know, but i guess third party tier ratio was far higher on the snes than on n64/gc.
at least this is my point of view. i own a lot of third party games, but most of my games are from nintendo. however, i am still able to enjoy good third party games, as my avatar should show you aswell.
