superchunk said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=127423 NES and SNES were like Wii in that they dominated their generation, however, they also dominated 3rd party support as did PS1 and PS2. Wii is the first generational winner to be pretty much ignored by 3rd parties. What's the only differentiating factor in all of this? Wii was drastically different in controller, architecture, and raw power. 3rd parties simply didn't want to have dev teams only working on Wii while others worked on PS360. Costs associated with that simply were not financially viable for them. (this is me thinking like them, not how I would have wanted or thought they should) |
That logic, if applied at the end of the N64 generation would have led one to advise Nintendo to not give the GC controller and control sticks.
Sony and MS will have Move plus and Kinect plus as their main control systems next gen, with about the same level for support of classic controllers as the Wii has. If Nintendo is the only one to return to a control scheme that will then be 2 generations old, that will lose them a lot of third party support.
Edit - From that other thread - Nintendo always change the control scheme? Just like they did with the SNES and GC? oh wait. But foruntaely, Nintendo have set up a pattern of dramatically chaning the control scheme every second generation. Too bad this aint one of those.
Also, I will cry if Nintendo goes the shitty, inbuild battery option, its as bad as the 360 using proprietry harddrive. Rechargable AAs ftw
