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EdHieron on 12 June 2012
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Mnementh said:
EdHieron said:
 


Because most of the Third Party games like Gears of War V from Epic will be geared toward consoles capable of replicating high end PC specs, and like the Wii since the Wii U's only a step up from this gen, it won't be capable of producing games to those specs like PS4 and Nextbox.

If that's so - why did PS2 get all the third-party games, XBOX and Gamecube were so much more powerful. Your reasoning is broken.


PS2 got all the third party games because PS1 had such a definitive win over the other consoles in its gen and it was welcoming from the start to a very wide ranging demographic of gamers.  Wii did not have that type of definitive win its gen.  Combined PS3 and 360 -- the most powerful consoles where most of the third party games are this gen --  have sold more consoles than the Wii by a substantial amount, and Nintendo hasn't shown that it's open to a wide demographic.  It's mainly demonstrated that it's for casuals and Mario fans.

Also, there were a wide variety of third party games from PS2's time that didn't make it to PS2 and these tended to be ports of high end pc games ( which really started to come into their own on consoles in the 6th gen ) and these games tended to appear on the most powerful console of the 6th gen Microsoft's xbox and they included games like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, The Elder Scrolls:  Morrowind, the first appearance of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and Bioware's Star Wars:  Knights of the Old Republic.