| Gamerace said: The support from Japanese companies is immense but from Western ones, not so impressive. Only one minor title each from Activision and Take Two. EA seems to be playing it safe too except for maybe My Garden but no 'core' franchises like Dead Space or Mass Effect (either of which would be awesome in 3D). Ubisoft is doing more, but half look like ports, and considering the ports Wii got (FarCry anyone?) I'm not holding out for too much from them. Wonder if Japanese developers got their hands on it long before western ones did. |
I think it's more that the Japanese developers have no choice, as the 3DS will be the new main platform in Japan. If you look at software sales in Japan, they are much stronger on handhelds than on consoles (DS >> Wii, PSP >> PS3).
On the other hand, the west always has the HD consoles to fall back on, which sell tons of software.
I don't think the 3DS is showing us anything new, as the DS wasn't exactly ignored by 3rd parties before. It'll be bigger in Japan, probably take most of PSP's old support, but that still isn't much from western third parties.
