| Arius Dion said: Don't see how the lack 'quality' third party support is Nintendo's fault. TP's are their own entity that make their own decisions. DS gets quality third party support. |
The DS and the Wii are hardly comparable though. The DS is a handheld with forefathers that completely dominated the market and it has been out for five good years showing a good ability to sell 3rd party games on a large scale and it has only one true competitor (barely, the PSP is really no match, paralympics contestant versus Usain Bolt) from an unproven handheld console manufacturer that has done... a lot worse. Also, developers don't have to choose either DS or three other platforms (as opposed to choosing between Wii or PS3/360/PC).
The Wii was a huge gamble made by a company that was soundly beaten for two gens running, a company that have also been known to have a strained relationship with third parties on their home consoles and to make it even more savoury it has a hardware setup that yields little to no room in terms of cross platform simultaneous development for most developers and has been out only three years selling a whole lot less 3rd party software than its handheld brother and is currently showing a huge yoy drop despite active measures to maintain momentum.
Not the same at all, actually.
