Louie on 13 May 2007
| Shane said: Once a system hits DS levels of penetration, like the NES did, third party games can sell on Nintendo systems. They'll still get their asses handed to them by Nintendo, though, no matter who they are or what they make. At a couple million unit userbase, however, nobody will care less about third party games. Look at the top games for any Nintendo system that's been out in the last 10 years (GB, GBA, DS, GCN, Wii), and you will probably see the top 10 are all Nintendo published. Nintendo may be able to get a 5 million seller, but that doesn't help third parties any. Look at the top 10 for any Sony system, and you will see a couple from Sony and the rest from Square, Enix, EA, Take 2, Konami, Koei, Capcom, etc. As an analyst said recently, Nintendo has not expanded the market. They've simply resegmented it in their favor. |
the Japanese market doubled it´s size since 2000 and the Wii is selling at a level the PS2 just managed when games like Final Fantasy came out. Shane, you are posting on vgchartz. Just read up the numbers.
And the (kind of crazy) argument "Nintendo didn´t expand the market because DS sold less than GBA did in it´s life" doesn´t count anymore you know.
