| RolStoppable said: This is the thread where people have to realize that third parties suck. The 3DS dominated the Japanese hardware charts for well over two years and has an installed base of over 15m units, yet the system is treated like an also-ran despite numerous third party hits. The 3DS should get the lion share of third party software, because it has earned that spot. However, third parties decided that they have to save the Vita. |
This is not true... 3DS does get the lion share of 3rd party support. It gets most of the big IPs (Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Taiko no Tatsujin, Kingdom Hearts, Resident Evil, Professor Layton, etc) exclusively in one form or another, as well as plenty of niche support. It could be better, but that has more to do with smartphones than with Vita. That's what's taken away resources when compared to DS/PSP.
There's only a few niche developers that pretty much stick to Sony platforms exclusively, hardly representative of the whole (namely Nippon Ichi, Compile Heart/Idea Factory, Gust and Falcom). This is from where most of the exclusive Vita support comes from. The rest of support is mostly due to the ease of porting with PS3 and PSP, sharing the games with them (God Eater, Toukiden, J-Stars VS, Project Diva, Final Fantasy X HD, Super Robot Taisen, etc). While 3DS doesn't get these games because of this, it gets their own exclusives instead. Instead of a Project Diva multiplatform, it gets Project Mirai. Instead of a Super Robot Taisen multiplatform, it gets an exclusive one. And instead of Final Fantasy X HD, it gets Bravely Default. When you take into account the factors of exclusivity and appeal, you see that 3DS does get the most from the big publishers, as well as most of the medium/niche ones like Atlus, Success, and arguably Arc System Works and Marvelous. Just looking at number of releases alone is misleading. It's just not the same to get Monster Hunter 4 than a VN port. The quality of the support in terms of resources, risk, and expectations sales-wise (in relation to the developer/publisher) is what matters the most here.
Speaking of smartphones, I forgot about Puzzle and Dragons Z before... That one is bound to be localized, and it could very well be released this year. It will probably be a big seller too...
