Nem on 29 January 2014
| retroking1981 said: Genuine question... How and why is 3DS losing 3rd party support? It doesn't really make sense, I mean I totally understand them not supporting Wii U, just look at the sales. 3DS on the other hand has been selling very well and has only sold about half DS LT sales, to give up now seems a bit short sighted. If this is true then Nintendo must be really really bad at 3rd party relations. PS4 and 3DS seem like the perfect platforms to support from a financial perspective. How does Vita make more sense than 3DS to support? I'm not a fanboy but this makes almost as little sense as Japanese developers dropping PS4 for Wii U to me - well maybe not but even still. |
Depends on what you are talking about.
I'm going to assume you are talking about Japan only.
The 3DS has decent 3rd party support in Japan, but the Vita, like the PSP before it sees better sales on 3rd party software ( i believe this is because Sony isnt as strong as Nintendo as a first party).
Vita is presumably easy to develop for, and 3rd parties sell better (its multi-platofrm releases have matched PS3 sales with a much larger installed base).
So, i dont think its that weird to decide to bring your game to the Vita instead of the 3DS if you are a 3rd party. Only the strongest IP's seem to be able to sell on the 3DS. Even metal gear and tekken tanked quite badly.
