| retroking1981 said:
I appreciate the effort you've gone to for this but what I meant by Nintendo games was games made by Nintendo themselves not 3rd parties. FIFA 2014 is coming out on Wii for example so it's still getting 'supported', just not by Nintendo themselves. The games you listed initially were all made by 3rd parties with the possible exception of Tetris? The second list refers to Japanese release dates as you stated and looking at the list I can't see many that left Japan and only 3 I'd call big games: Fire Emblem, SFC Wars and DKC3 and even that was made by Rare. I'm from the UK and I honestly don't think any Nintendo made game came out after the N64 launch which was Marich '97. DKC3 and Street Fighter Alpha 2 were the last two high profile games and they were both Dec 1996 and neither of those were even made by Nintendo. I'm not sure how it worked out for the US market but Japan seemed to get more support, although I have no idea about what most of those games were. N64 and Gamecube were infinitely worse than SNES for this anyway so I'm still suprised people are moaning about Nintendo not supporting the Wii now that Wii U is out, they've been dropping support for older systems like this for generations. My point still stands that this is because its much harder/time consuming/more expensive to make a 3D game than it is to knock out Wreckin' Crew 98 for example. Just look at the NES, games were so easy and cheap to make for that they were still bringing out new IP's (Kirby) post SNES. I think it shows how much gaming has changed in a way. Back in the 8Bit days people still acitively played the older consoles. The Lion King for example came out on every system going. Both Nintendo and Sega 8Bits, handhelds and 16Bits. That was in 1994! That just wouldn't happen now. Look at the OG XBOX, MS dropped that overnight! I know that won't happen with 360 but at the same time its not gonna be no PlayStation. Lets be honest here Sony are the KINGS of supporting HW after its time in the sun. |
I do agree with your point that game development time & cost are one reason we don't see as many post gen games for older systems, and did enjoy reading the rest of your post.
But if you ignore 3rd party games, even the list of PS2 games released after the PS3 looks less than impressive.
From the Sony 1st party studios there were:
- lots of Sports games,
- some late Japanese ports/re-releases,
- and games that shared PSP development.
The only post PS3 Sony game made exclusively for the PS2 that I can remember is God of War II, though I'm probably forgetting some..
Was there any other big Sony 1st party PS2 games released that were not already available in some form before November 2006, or also not available on the PSP?
