| Calmador said: - The SNES was the last Nintendo console that had great 3rd Party support... ever since then it's been going down the toilet basically until now where at the Wii.... history is not on Nintendo's side - Also theres a reason for that... from my understanding... Nintendo has pissed off the 3rd developers in those times... and that's why its been lacking in 3rd party. On the N64 Nintendo didn't want to switch to CD and games like Metal Gear Solid weren't possible and thats why it was only found on Playstation... otherwise we'd have Metal Gear Solid 64 in those times. They were pretty darn arrogant. - The fans... the "hardcore" gamers aren't exactly confident with Nintendo because of the Wii... I'm a lifetime Nintendo fan (until the Wii hit) and I'm not going to get the next Nintendo that easily... Nintendo needs to do something HUGE next gen to win back the "hardcore" gamers it lost with the Wii... but at the same time it would benifit them to keep the casaul, kid, moms, grandma/pa markets too. Next Gen they have come out with a lot of games because it would need to satisfy both these markets.
My money is on Nintendo sticking to the casaul, non-gamer market and basically being the way it is now because it's easier... but I think it won't be as successful this time around because all those kids playing Wii right now... are growing up and will be the Teens of next gen and will want play big boy games more. That said I predict next gen will be the gen of Teen and Mature games and I hope Nintendo gets a well deserved hit for thier betrayal to a good chunk of thier traditionand fanbase (I know some of themare actually okay with Nintendo right now... as hard as that is to believe) become the next Sega and then Apple come out with the AppleBox and blow all the consoles way super high tech graphics and games haha jk |
In term of raw number of games released and in money invested, third party support for Nintendo was the lowest for the N64 and improved with the Gamecube; and then improved again with the Wii. Right now the Wii has seen over 1,000 third party titles released for it and by the time the last game is released it will probably be 2,000 or 2,500 titles. Now, the quality of much of the third party support could be much better but even throughout the life of the Wii that has been improving.
Being that it is unlikely that Sony or Microsoft will release a console that costs more than $400 in the next generation, they probably won’t be willing to lose nearly as much on each console sold, and they won’t release such big energy consuming consoles because of how poorly it worked for them this generation it is unlikely that they’re going to be pushing the limits technically like they were in this generation. At the same time, because Nintendo can be less cautious about the manufacturing cost of their console, and will need to invest in licensing new technology anyways, it is plausible that (compared to their position with the Wii) their next system could be relatively more powerful. What this means is that the gap in performance between the systems in the next generation will probably be noticeably smaller than the current generation, and there will be few technical reasons why one game can’t be ported to another console.
With the approach many third party publishers have taken with their biggest budget games of releasing them across (pretty much) every console, and with the barriers to porting games to Nintendo’s console removed, it is likely that if Nintendo’s next system is as popular as the Wii you would see most of Sony’s and Microsoft’s next generation libraries available on the Wii.
Or to put it another way, from day one third party support for Nintendo's next console will be significantly better than it was for the Wii, and this will include greater support for all kinds of gamers; so if Nintendo has advantages they can capitalize on that lead to similar success (earlier release date, lower cost hardware, or an exciting new user interface) it is entirely possible that Nintendo could recapture their current market and a large portion of the HD consoles’ markets.
