| superchunk said: Huh... NES, SNES, all Nintendo Handhelds had massive 3rd party support. 3DS shows this will continue (based on announced games) and I'm sure a powerful and similar N6 device will follow suite and allow 3rd parties a reason to jump into Nintendo's basket... along with whatever MS/Sony have. Thing is with these increased costs, 3rd parties are forced to be multiplatform. This is why the greater majority of games are PS360/PC. They need a big userbase to make back the dev costs. Having a Nintendo system to ALSO port to will be automatic. I think you are not considering the change in logic from exclusive to all multiplatform. Exclusivity among 3rd parties is essentially dead. |
No, that's not true. The NES and SNES had no support from the major publishers of the time, of which only Activision and EA are still around. After two years they got support from smaller companies, because thankfully the barrier to entry was not very high at that time.
They only support Nintendo's handhelds when there is no alternative. Until the PSP was a clear software disaster they were still supporting it above DS and do so in Japan to this day (where DS was selling more hardware and software, even third party software for a long time).
A game I'm developing with some friends:
www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm
It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.
