Will Nintendo do what Sony did next-gen?

[DucksUnlimited]

Shadow1980 said:

DucksUnlimited said:

I think a large portion of the third party issue is due to demographics though. Hence why third party games were more prevelant and generally sold better on the Xbox than the Cube, despite similar power/ install bases.

I think format issues were perhaps a more likely reason. Just like how third parties first started leaving Nintendo due to the latter's insistence on sticking with carts in the fifth generation, Nintendo's proprietary miniDVD-based format, which could hold only a third as much data as a single-layer DVD, didn't win them back anybody else. If Nintendo had switched to CDs with the N64 and used ordinary DVDs for the GC, both systems likely would have been able to compete favorably with Sony as they would have never lost so much third-party support.

That would have had some influence on the quantity of third party game, certainly, but I still don't think it would have ultimately made that much of a difference since a lot of the third party games that were on the system sold poorly anyway.