| UltimateUnknown said: 3rd parties are a controversial topic when it comes to Nintendo hardware. So let's rank all Nintendo home consoles in history with best to worst 3rd party support and see if we all have similar views. BTW this ranking doesn't have to strictly be about the QUANTITY of 3rd party games that were available, but should also take into account their QUALITY. Here's my list: 1) NES 2) SNES 3) Gamecube 4) Wii 5) N64 6) Wii U |
Exactly what you have here. The NES is clearly #1. It had all 3rd party support pretty much exclusively (it even had some Sega 1st party games on it... and Sega had their own console at the time, lol).
The SNES had excellent support.
Gamecube had decent console parity with Soul Calibur, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Tony Hawk, Madden, Phantasy Star Online; superb timed exclusives in Resident Evil 4 and Viewtiful Joe; plus full exclusives with FF:CC, MGS:TS, RE0, and the outstanding REmake.
Wii tops N64 because of the massive popularity of Guitar Hero and Just Dance.
And WiiU is definitely last. EDIT: I didn't consider WiiU's indie support; WiiU may actually best the N64. :O
