Xen said:
Nintendo fails to understand that it isn't lack of power that withdrew 3rd party devs from developing from them.... were N64 and GC not powerful? They very much were. Did they have premium 3rd party support? Not at all. Third party devs either dislike Nintendo or don't give a rats' ass about them. Same thing with the audience they're trying to capture here. |
That wasn't really the case. Don't forget, SNES had loads of third party support just a year before N64 came out.
N64 lost it's third party support because it was behind technologically in one very important aspect: media. It used expensive, low capacity carts, that made since from a hardware maker's standpoint, but from a publisher's or developers standpoint, meant that any game they made had to be made under the constraints of a cartridge, and would cost far more to produce and sell then a CD. Graphical power may not have been a problem, but their backwards use of carts as the storage medium certainly was. N64 was where it all went wrong for Nintendo. They lost much of their fanbase to the Playstation and basically became the "other" console, a legacy that more or less doomed the Gamecube to being the exact same thing.
Compared to it's predecessors, Wii has gotten loads of third party support, and the most exclusives since at least the SNES. Of course, many of these games were crap, but nevertheless the third party support was there. Main thing that held the Wii back fromm getting the same third party support as it's contemporaries was it's hardware constraints. If Nintendo is able to produce a console in the same ballpark as PS4 and Xbox Next, I see no reason why they won't get ports of every major third party release.
