Current vs Last, a Console Sales Story (COMPLETE!)

[Osc89]

superchunk said:

Osc89 said:

I still don't understand why third parties would abandon Nintendo when they didn't for Sony and MS. If they are what saved the PS360, then why doesn't Nintendo create a similar situation for themselves?

Because 3rd parties largely don't want Nintendo around. Which is why Rol argues with me that Nintendo can't trust 3rd parties and they need to simply expand their own offerings. Something I agree, but I think Nintendo should use 3rd parties and to do that they have to make hardware 3rd parties feel the must release on as its simply to simple/relatively cost-free to do so.

I think we agree on that point then, because I think that if the hardware was very similar in architecture and power the third parties would release for Nintendo anyway. This is what I meant by having third parties as a backup, that they would stick around as long as long as porting to the Nintendo was really cheap and easy.