Malstrom: The industry's hostility against Nintendo

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Arius Dion said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

jarrod said:

Xoj said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
The reason they would want them out is that Nintendo doesn't rely on third parties. The other first parties do. The competition claim is just BS. It's about feeling important. They made Sony king the last two times, and no matter how much they tried with the PSP, PS3, and 360, they can't do it this time.

the thing it's they games are selling pretty well, MGS4 even sold more than MGS3-

and both ps3 and 360 are selling beast look at GTA4 and MW2 sales.

MGS4 barely outsold MGS3, and it likely cost more to produce than MGS1-3 combined.  GTA4's undersold all the last gen GTAs and it was also orders of magnitide more costly in terms of production.

Basically, even the biggest franchises are only hitting their series lowpoints from last gen (at best), but their costs have multiplied.  That's not really a sustainable industry progression, which is why developers (and even some publishers) seem to be dropping like flies this gen.  HD is just too expensive with not enough retrun for most.

It did outsell the PSP GTAs, but those were more or less expansion packs to III and Vice City.

Should also add Take Two posted losses that quarter despite all the money GTA IV made.

That's just incredible.

GTA4 cost over $100 million to produce, I know that for a fact.

I believe the figure thrown around for MGS4 was $40 million. But back in the PS2 days, an MGS probably never ventured past $25m. The first MGS on the PS1 cost $8m to advertise.