| superchunk said: What are you talking about? NES SNES had every game possible that wasnt' 1st party from Sega (or other console). DS has also had all the games even with a relatively successful PSP. Have you even looked at the long list of 3DS announced games and the list of 3rd parties? |
They got the support of upstarts, after a couple of years (it wasn't until the third year for NES that games started to flood the system). Those upstarts are today's big third parties, but the established industry of the time did not support the NES or SNES. They are gone for the most part now.
Today it's less likely for an upstart to make a difference as the barriers to entry are vastly more significant.
There's a great commercial from the eighties for I think the Commodore 64 that showed all the major developers of the time giving it their thumbs up, none of which are recognizable to gamers today as they all went bankrupt and did not develop on the platforms we grew up with. I'm trying to find it atm.
A game I'm developing with some friends:
www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm
It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.
