| JayWood2010 said: Its arguable that XBOX survived off Halo but yes youre right to a degree. Though i wouldnt consider the WiiU surviving. Id consider it the 3DS while WiiU is struggling. And 3DS does actually have third party games as well. But when it is all said and done, if nintendo made another console that struggles the way WiiU does i dont know if it would be a viable option to continue making game hardware. Nintendo is going to have to think more about third parties with their next hardware or it could be their last honestly. Either that or try and expand their fanbase because right now their fanbase is mainly one group which isnt large enough to sustain hardware. |
Not to go all off topic but part of me wonders how a new generation would work for Nintendo. I mean, would third parties support them? They'll likely need to be assured that their games would sell on a Nintendo platform before they invest in creating games at all (aside from ports of older games). When those don't sell (or the console doesn't catch fire because of a lack of third party), they'll pull support.
It's a catch 22 all over again. No 3rd party support because of low sales. No sales because of low 3rd party support.
