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Smashchu2 on 16 June 2010
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aragod said:
Smashchu2 said:
aragod said:

Smashchu2 you are even better analyst than Pachter, with your brilliant logical thinking you could make him your bitch at Wedbush. No just kidding, you might bring him a coffe and papers if you work a little harder. Seriously no clue

Then may I ask why my analysis is wrong?

@kowenicki Yes, perhaps that is a possibility.

There are several reasons and I won't go into all of them, but just the first and most basic (broken) will be pointed out.

Nintendo acquiring 3rd party support (which they had this generation all along) doesn't mean that Sony is losing it. It's allways easier making ports or derivative games from home consoles than building from ground up for dual screen 3D device. So unless the PSP2 will copy the 3DS toe to toe, it will have games. And even than, multiplatforms say hello.

It's called 3rd party support for a reason and as long as you can provide some userbase, you won't be left out. So the only exclusives you can count on are Nintendo's and Sony's 1st party studios can fight them just fine.

The problem is that companies can not infinate games. They can only make some. If 3DS is getting a lot of support, including multiple games from one company, then they can not get that many games. Sony requires that, in order to stay on top, they get the AAA games from third parties, but now they have to compete with the 3DS over games. Since the 3DS had 2/3 of the market, where do you think the games are going to go? Sony also doesn't have strong 1st party software (theirs is very weak as the best selling PS3 games are third party).

Multiplatform works against Sony as now there is no difference between the two save for their price and other games. If Nintendo can make the best 1st party games (the ones to drive momentum) they will always win if we have porting.