| Shane said: Nintendo did what was best for Nintendo, as Nintendo always does. They did not take into account how it would impact third parties because they don't care. This was probably the best move for them, but it did ensure they would have trouble getting any key franchises. Install base means nothing if 60-85% of all games sold are first party... unless that install base has the penetration of the DS, and even then it's iffy |
Shane: Every post you have made so far has... not very well thought. What possible motivation would any company have from preventing 3rd party support? If they really wanted to do this, they would have just locked the entire system down to themselves which would have been cheaper for them since they didnt need to support anyone else but they didnt do that. None of the consoles did that. Hell no console in console history has ever done that.
Companies have tried to corner markets. They have purchased exclusivities and they may even buy out companies for their titles. But they have never turned away 3rd parties. It would make no sense. Along those lines, every company is guilty of those tactics.
They didnt take it into account the impact on 3rd parties? Even a 10 year old knows they shouldnt piss off the entire industry. Im sure this didnt get past them. Not get key franchises? Did you forget that franchises always move to the console that best capitalized their own interest. FF was originally on the nintendo but they moved to Sony. Do you know why? Because the PS cost less to develop for than the N64 and it had a bigger market share. It had nothing to do with 1st party software because that didnt effect them anyway. The N64 was more powerful than the PS1 but they moved to the PS anyway. Now the situation is reversed. If you were a developer with 1000 employees to pay for what would you do? Create for the PS3 and incur higher development costs or work on the Wii for half the cost and sell to twice the install base? Lets not forget that those people calling the shots dont give the 1st hoot about game quality or console power.
You say intall base means nothing... you cant be serious. Would you build a $10mil restaurant in a town with 500 people? Nope you will build it in a city with 100,000 people. Hell no franchise will even give you permission to build if you dont have a large enough population in the area you are proposing. Its no different for games and it is why the Neo Geo failed long ago. It was leaps and bounds supperior to all other consoles and it had very good 1st party games but it had a poor install base so no 3rd parties jumped on.
