Viktor on 15 April 2013
| RolStoppable said: They don't even realize what's going to hit them. Nintendo's self-destruction will also have an effect on their beloved companies, because now there isn't going to be a platform where third parties can rake in the cash with cheaply produced games. Money that was used to subsidize development for the 360 and PS3 until these systems had big enough installed bases to become self-sustaining. Admittedly, some publishers never really reached that point and continued to incur losses. The upcoming transitional period is going to be tough for third parties. Activision is about the only Western publisher who has a reliable cash cow in Call of Duty. EA sells 10m+ copies of FIFA each year, but that's still not good enough to make a profit overall. The software markets on the 360 and PS3 are on the decline and it will take at least a couple of years before the Nextbox and PS4 truly get going. This time there is no DS and Wii. Mobile isn't going to pick up the slack, because consumers are conditioned to expect free games. |
This is really an interestng point that crossed my mind as well. Many publishers used cheap casual games that sometimes were really successful like the Carneval games from Take2 to actually fund their "big" games on the HD console. So in my opinion it isn´t actually that bad if this demographic doesn´t seem to be that interested in WiiU right now and that these kind of games aren´t that popular on 3DS anymore, because they actually need to find a different way to do that now, the most apparent one is to extent the range of supported systems for multiplatform games.
