| BasilZero said: Nope. The NES and SNES were popular with third parties but when Sony came in with the PS1 the third parties went to them instead. |
Maybe its semantics, but popular with thirds doesn't mean they were liked by them. The NES was hated by thirds most notably EA who's board had to threaten Trip Hawkins to put games on the system due to its popularity. Also because of Nintendo's strict stance on cartridges and quality control, thirds weren't able to flood the market with tons of crappy software. Once Sega came onto the scene, EA jumped behind them almost exclusively to try and oust Nintendo from the console market. But What many hadn't thought at the time was that Sega took a similar stance to Nintendo on quality control and wasn't able to leverage Sega as they'd wanted.
When Sony came into gaming with their deep pockets no quality control, along with not being a 'gaming company' Thirds were able to have their investments leveraged as they were now able to control a console maker.
Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:
If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.
If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.
