Nintendo means bad news for 3rd parties!

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fishamaphone said:
Shane, you're insulting the bud before the flower's had a chance to bloom. You can't compare RE4 on GCN to RE4 on PS2 because PS2 had three times the install base. It had nothing to do with Nintendo's competition. In fact, you really can't compare Nintendo's previous consoles to Wii. That's what I was trying to tell you. Last gen, Nintendo bent over backwards to get 3rd party support, and succeeded to a very small extent. A couple FF spinoffs, some Namco RPGs, a bit of Capcom love... but the mainline support was for Sony. Nintendo hasn't had major 3rd party support since the SNES. You're making assertions based on ten years of history that have no bearings on the future. The question is "IF 3rd parties throw support behind Nintendo, will they succeed?" and you're pointing to a past where they didn't. The times, they are a-changin'

 They did succeed though, by GC standards. Shane has used -- in fact he has to use, since it's the only statistic that supports his argument -- a per-system sales figure to show that PS3 third party titles are outselling Wii third party titles on a per system basis. 

Using the same system, Resident Evil 4 did quite well on Gamecube, considering it had 1/5 the system base.