psrock said:
superchunk said:
Demotruk said:
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.
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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).
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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?
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Maybe I'm not understanding you clearly, you think the next Wii will get all the third party support because it started first, right?
Let me help you, Nintendo can never be like PS2 in the console race. That's never happening again. Even now, I expect most 3rd party games to three way until the other two release their consoles.
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That's what I said. With Nintendo's next system being on par with PS360 and MSony's next systems, 3rd parties will put games on all systems. Obviously there will be the extreme rarity with a single game and potentially timed exclusive, but primarily 3rd parties will put games across all three.
I never argued for anyone getting exclusivity like PS2 did.
