| Viper1 said:
You are correct. Since the N64 days, 3rd parties have no put as much effort on the Nintendo consoles as they have on the other consoles and consumers ahve responded by buying games from a publisher they trust to provide good quality - Nintendo. The issue started on the N64 because Nintendo's decision to use cartridges instead of CD's reduced the per unit profit potential for publishers so it made sense financially to put more effort on the disc based consoles. The problem is that the mind set, software ecosystem and stmata generated from that carried over to the GC despite having a disc based medium. This further ascerbated the 1st party / 3rd party disparity which leads us to now. The fact that 3DS launched with far better 3rd party support than did DS and that Wii U is way ahead of Wii's intial 3rd party support suggests this aricle is not only full of crap but is riding the journalistic mentality of 'Nintendo doomed' articles are good business. |
To be fair, Konami is a fairly important publisher (understatement), and n-space had a very different reaction from western publishers as compared to the DS gen. So he's not really all that bad, I actually thought he was being honest, just may be a little misguided in his conclusions that's all.
