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UncleScrooge said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
UncleScrooge said:
RolStoppable said:
UncleScrooge said:

I more and more get the feeling it's mainly some sort of psychological thing that makes or brakes support of third parties. Most of them want to make movie-like games, push online and show how great they can make their games look on your system.

Maybe third parties are like gravity: You may not like it but it will always be there so why not arrange with it? Give them better online, a nice CPU and enough RAM and tell them they are cool. Epic will never stop bitching about Nintendo's systems but Capcom, Sega, Konami should be happy with these improvements. And with at least a one year headstart and a powerful-enough system they might just be happy enough to seriously support Nintendo's next console.

Look at the 3DS: Technically it is hardly more advanced than the DS was at the time of its release. All it needed was Nintendo saying "yeah, we're so hardcore" and a headstart and third parties went bonkers... once a good relationship has been established they will continue to support your system even with more powerful hardware out a year or two later. It's more about your console's image than the CPU inside it.

It's not really about the image either. It's about choice. If third parties have none, then they'll have to settle with Nintendo. Outside of Japan the PSP has had disastrous software sales, so third parties are better safe than sorry by supporting the 3DS out of the gate instead of holding out and banking on Sony's NGP.

Maybe it's a mix of both. Whatever it is it doesn't appear to be 100% rational.


Well when people think they are artists and superior to anyone who isn't, they tend to act irrationally.


(and @ Rol):

Yeah that was my point. I think some of them are pretty high in the sky. Best way to deal with these kinds of "artists" is to woo them. Guess Nintendo won't like that but what should they do? Even if they get their software right 100% of the time there will be those "off" years when they have to drop support for one platform to introduce a new one.


I wouldn't say wooing them is the best thing, as the really stuck up ones won't be wooed no matter what, and as we saw with the weird Wii games, many tend to get dumb ideas and then complain when the mainstream doesn't embrace them.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs