Boneitis on 26 November 2009
| Khuutra said: Now guys that ain't entirely fair to 3rd parties. Yeah, the Wii's been getting shafted and yeah, the Gamecube's support wasn't fantastic (though it was still good enough in my book), but both of those had pretty legitimate reasons for going south, including the Gamecube just not being a very popular system. The Cube got plenty of ports, just not many exclusives - which is understandable! Why put exclusives on a console that topped out with 22-25 million players? 3rd party support was pretty great for the N64, on the other hand, even though the Playstation was curb-stomping it and Nintendo did everything in its power to make life Hell for third parties on that system. I think they might, if the Wii2/WiiHD is as big as the Wii. |
Oh man, you're way off. The Gamecube had far better 3rd party support. Most notably, actual support from Japanese developers.
With that said it had several exclusive Resident Evil games, Street Fighter, Mega Man, and a ton of other Capcom titles, an exclusive Final Fantasy, Sega games (most notably Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star Online), EA games, quality titles from THQ and Activision, etc. The Gamecube had an overall awesome and high quality library thanks to 3rd party support.
The N64 might have had more exclusive IPs, but they were awful. Perhaps you enjoyed the 1st party games, but 3rd party support was abysmal.
