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ksv on 24 December 2014
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vivster said:
axumblade said:
I mean, some obvious examples are the yearly editions of Just Dance, Skylanders and Disney Infinity are pretty much obvious answers.

Their first party games are the reasons most people play Nintendo products though. It's been that way for a long time.

I'm pretty sure 3rd party games were plenty and sought after in the NES and SNES era. After that it was mostly by design since Nintendo just didn't have much beyond first party.

If Nintendo had more 3rd party games people would also consider it for 3rd party.

No need to retcon history. The gamecube had tons and tons of 3rd party games, most high profile 3rd party games that werent exclusive were released on all 3 consoles of that generation. The GC version was usually superior to PS2 version too due to the GC being more powerful (and on level or slightly behind xbox). A few 3rd party titles were skipped on GC because of the limited disc size, but there were also several good GC 3rd party exclusives via capcom, like Viewtiful Joe, Resident Evil 4, RE:Make.

 

So yes, 3rd party titles didnt sell well on the GC. But there were hundreds and hundreds released. The gamecube had an image issue with the purple design and the rather silly Mario entry (Sunshine, really?), and the artstyle of Wind Waker unfortunately didnt help (even tho most ppl love it now). Point is, the people who bought lots of 3rd party games preferred xbox or ps2, and so 3rd party support started dying there.