| foxtail said: When this topic comes up a lot of people always focus on Squaresoft and FF7, though they shouldn't. Nintendo must have seen what was coming long before Squaresoft moved out of their US headquarters in Redmond Washington (which was literally located right next to Nintendo's own US HQ). They had very close communications with each other back then and they both knew that their exclusive relationship was coming to an end with Squarsoft's new ambitions and the N64 cartridge limitations. On the other hand Nintendo failed to get a game series on the N64 which was completely possible on cartridges and that was already multi-platform. That game was Street Fighter. Sales of SFII were huge back then, even in Japan where Street Fighter II:The World Warrior outsold Final Fantasy VI. Street Fighter II: TWW SNES sales in Japan = 2.87 million Final Fantasy VI SNES sales in Japan = 2.55 million Street Fighter II was one of the best selling 3rd party games on the SNES, if not the best. Failing to put a single Street Fighter game on the N64 was one of the biggest tragedies for both Nintendo and Capcom.
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I do agree that we hadn't a SF for a long time on console, wouldn't blame Nintendo exclusively... But Capcom and SF seems like a lack of middle ground... or they skip gen without a input (like I don't even remember a proper SF on the PlayStation 1, Saturn or N64) or have 5 yearly "DLCs" called as full games like in SFIV and SFII, maybe I and III were more on the middle ground but just because they weren't as massive in selling as II and IV.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
