Sony: 'Publishers Are Getting the Living Crap Kicked Out of Them by Microsoft'

[Mr Khan]

d21lewis said:
And like somebody already said, Nintendo was far worse. Third parities weren't allowed to make Nes games that competed directly with Nintendo's games. They could only produce a certain number of games per year. They had to buy a certain number of cartridges from Nintendo to put their games on before the game released. They couldn't release the same game for competing platforms until after a year had passed.

This continued until the PS1 era. When Sony started kicking serious ass, that's when Nintendo learned a little humility. Thing is, Nintendo third party support has never been the same, since. And, while I don't have anything to support the assumption that Sony made a similar move, I recall a few bigger games getting early release on PS2 (MGS2, GTA3) while, at the same time, games like Splinter Cell would get released much earler on Xbox. Maybe, to a degree, everybody is guilty.

Nintendo still is that bad when it comes to WiiWare. While their standards are low for the quality of content released, supposedly they require WiiWare developers to sell a set number of copies before they (the devs) even see penny one, and then no demos, no advertising of any sort unless you're a big name, and no promotional deals (like sales) ever. You get a mention the week you release, and that's the end of it.

The above is what makes me find the people complaining about XBLA to sound extremely spoiled. ^That^ is what they could be dealing with