TheBlackNaruto said:
Egann said:
DerNebel said:
Egann said:
The generation is young, so it's hard to tell, but I do think Nintendo will ship more hardware overall.
Thing is, Sony is in a bit of a catch-22 in this comparison. I'm guessing that if/ when the X1 overtakes the Wii U, Nintendo will pull the plug on it. They will no longer be able to compete in the console space. If the Wii U flops hard enough to do that and gets EOL'ed around, say, 2016, then the 3DS will get so much first party, third party, and indy support that the PS4 will have it's work cut out to overtake it. Conversely, if the Wii U holds on, you have two Nintendo consoles, the handheld market-leading 3DS and likely the middle of the console market Wii U. That's a better combination than first in market/ last in market.
When you look at Sony, though, there's no chance they will EOL the Vita, even if it stays forever a nobody. I could be terribly wrong, but I see the Vita factoring into this much less than the Wii U.
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How would the Wii U ending its life in 2016 influence the 3DS's third party and indie support?
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Because Nintendo will be focusing on it entirely and the 3DS will be a successful console without an "OMG DA GWAPHICS" reputation.
Case in point: Ghost Trick was basically an idealized SNES era throwback. It only sold as well as it did (and it sold kinda poorly) because the DS had a collossal install base and a reputation which collected gamers who could look past the graphics. Ghost Trick consistently made "best games on the DS" lists, and several reviews I found said things along the line of "a game like this is only possible on the DS."
As much as Sony has pushed indy games on the PS4, they are basically filler titles. They have no chance of competing with the blockbusters for critical acclaim, much less sales.
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But that still doesn't explain how the Wii U getting cut off would increase the 3DS indie/3rd party support. More first party without a doubt but the 3rd party would remain almost the same. Especially seeing as the Wii U has close to zero 3rd party support as it is.
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No, more first party support means more sales, which means more third party developers will be attracted to the larger market.
This is something which is relatively unique to Nintendo. Were we talking about Sony, yeah, first party support would have little effect on the consoles sales because the titles pushing hardware are already mostly third party. Nintendo, however, pushes hardware almost exclusively with first party titles. Less going on with the Wii U means more going on in the 3DS, which means more hardware sales.
True, those added sales would likely be cannabalized from what would have normally been the Wii U's market share, but in this scenario Microsoft and Sony would already be splitting the console space, and a sale is a sale.
