Nintendo and 3rd Party Development: Solving the Problem

[Booyah]

theRepublic said:

Booyah said:

RolStoppable said:

 

Personally I think its the exploding development costs that everyone seems to be downplaying. What are companies going to do when there is no install base early next-gen and they need to sell 2 mil copies just to break even?

Likely port to every available system.  We are probably going to see XBOX3/PS4/WiiU/360/PS3/PC games.  It is the only chance publishers are going to be able to see a profit.

So the next gen graphics jump is going to be kind of stagnated from all the porting issues, I would think.

 

Or are they going to be putting so much more effort into the consoles with established intall bases that the new consoles will get sub par ports? Sounds a little like what WiiU is dealing with.