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noname2200 on 08 December 2010
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RolStoppable said:
noname2200 said:

We thought that at the beginning of the last generation, and that obviously didn't pan out.  I hope for Nintendo's sake that this rumor is true, because I haven't exactly been impressed by what third-parties, especially Western third-parties, have unveiled for the system so far.

I wouldn't worry too much about Western third parties, because they have historically treated handhelds like a poor man's gaming machine and that's unlikely to change in the near future. The 3DS won't get top tier games (maybe a couple of exceptions) and the same goes for the PSP2.

The Japanese third parties seem to go mostly with remakes early on, but Nintendo has some of them in the works too. I suppose that's mainly because such titles require less work and everyone wants to cash in as much as possible on the initial software sales. Having only new games in the works would make most companies miss out on the launch window. Whatever way things will play out, one thing is certain: the 3DS will have a better first year lineup than its predecessor (yes, I know that's not exactly setting the bar high).

Oh, I know Western developers don't really do handhelds (what's the highest-profile Western DS developer?  Fifth Cell?).  I just keep hearing all this bruhaha about Western third-parties like THQ and EA hopping on the DS train, and then I see that their offerings are iterative games or XBLA ports.  It makes me extremely unimpressed.

Heheh, it's almost like we're repeating our first conversation, only with the roles reversed.

I know the Japanese will step up more, but so far I just don't really care much for what they're promising, and Nintendo's offerings aren't that much better in my opinion.  Things may be, and probably are, even worse for the PSP2, but then again that system has seen a resurgence in Japan recently, and in the past two years its support has been increasing steadily while the big-name Japanese developers have actually started drifting away from the DS.  It's a trend that few saw coming just two years ago, and it marks the second (albeit less marked) time this generation that third-parties drifted from the Easy Victor to the Losing Console.