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epicberserk on 25 April 2011
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Demotruk said:
Viper1 said:
Can you name me a list of western 3rd parties that supported the PC and Gensis but not the NES? 

And as I said, supporting the NES by western 3rd parties was slow at first not because of Nintendo or the NES itself but because of the crash of 1983.   Once the NEs proved it was a valid commercial entity, it was very well supported.  

And you are also forgetting that the Geneis didn't see WW release until 2007 anyway.  So your whole notion that the NES didn't see much western support until 2007 kinda fits in line with the whole concept that western 3rd parties didn't trust the home video game console market until it was proven viable.

AND, as I stated before, the whole concept of 3rd parties on a home console didn't even start until the NES.   It was a foreign concept to software developers in the west.


Microprose, LucasFilm (LucasArts didn't support NES till the 90's with a single game), System 3, Epyx, Firebird, Datasoft etc.

Can you name any more incumbents who did beyond EA and Activision?

 

Third parties had been developing on Atari for years, they didn't have a licencing model but it was still part of the business.

NES launched in 1985 and was extremely popular shortly after. It took years for Western support of any kind to arrive and that's in spite of lower development costs and short development cycles.

^^ this is true