BeElite said:
Soundwave said:
The next Nintendo "hardware" if it is indeed a fusion platform (ala iPhone - iPad) will probably finally get OK third party support.
Japanese support like Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Bravely Default/Final Fantasy spin-offs/Youkai Watch will likely continue there.
And for Western third parties, if Nintendo uses say ARM + Qualcomm because of the needs of having to make a chip for a mobile and home platform, that could spur decent support from them too.
It would be one place to support "Nintendo" rather than in the past, the Nintendo handhelds had the userbase Western devs liked, but the consoles had the better specs/tie-ratio that Western devs wanted, so it watered down the Western third party support for both I think.
If you give Western devs one unified platform that checks off their "Nintendo box" from their "todo list" I think that will be appealing to some devs at least. Maybe EA will return. I wouldn't mind being able to play a PS3/360 caliber game of NHL 16 or Madden NFL 16 or FIFA 16 on the go.
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Do you really see DQ and Monsterhunter not making there way to PS4 eventually ? those games dont need nintendo to release on moible or tablet. Either way they are likely bolting for greener pastures.
once support is cut it never comes back the same gen.
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PS4 is selling like crap in Japan, I don't see a huge incentive for developers to jump ship when both series' rely on Japan for like 80% of their sales.
I doubt the PS4 even reaches half of the 3DS' LTD ever in Japan.
Japan's moved on to mobile + handheld, there's no changing that now. MH4 sold 3.3 million on 3DS first ... that's not exactly charity money, there's still a very strong incentive to not look past that type of revenue. If they want to make mobile ports 2-3 years after that, they're free to do so.
