| RolStoppable said: But multiplats were there when the GC launched and its installed base was 0. There was no market that Nintendo created yet. Also, it needs to be noted that the GC didn't get all the multiplats over the course of its lifetime. There is a reason why the Xbox's library is around 100 games larger than the GC's despite being dropped by Microsoft after only four years. |
I mean that Nintendo had built a market for its own brand, for Nintendo, in transition from the N64 to the cube. It was existent, even as the transition was happening. There were people ready to play games for that market on the cube. But the PS2 crushed those hopes by being the plat all 3rd party devs flocked to for their exclusives (on the wake of the PSX no less), so multi-plats didn't matter. I think that left a sour taste in some of the devs' mouth.
