3DS & Japanese devs, a key to Nintendo's 3rd party support for WiiU.

[DanneSandin]

Salnax said:

DanneSandin said:
Question is, how much support did the original DS get from 3rd parties? I'm not sure at all, but from what I've heard, it was mostly Nintendo games that sold and and 3rd party support was rather poor. If this is the case, why would Japanese developers support the 3DS? It's probably not gonna sell as well as DS. Is your "3DS getting more support from J-games"-argument based on the fact that Vita isn't no PSP?

The DS started out with poor 3rd party support, but it picked up over the years, particularly once Final Fantasy 3 was remade and released in 2006. Square Enix made a bunch of games, including Dragon Quest 9 and remakes of 4-6, Sega made their various Sonic games, Capcom made Mega Man and Ace Attorney games, Level 5 made the Professor Layton series, you've got casual games like the Cooking Mama franchise, and even Western developers made games like Grand Theft Auto, Lego games, Imagine, Scribblenauts, Sims and MySims, and several Guitar Heroes. It was about on par with the PSP over its lifetime, and probably better if you focus on the years from 2007 to 2010.

Seems like I was wrong then =) Hopefully this 3rd party J-support spills over to the WIiU as well