Sony and Microsoft are spoiling Third Parties to much.

[Game_God]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Game_God said:

Are You?

Back in the day when Nintendo created a boom in the industry they put a key lock system into the systems to prevent third parties from making games for competitors and control their licenses. Third parties lived in fear of screwing the pooch with Nintendo because they had them under a vice grip. The only reason people didnt bitch at Nintendo was because of their marketshare. Its because of them why Sega was forced to make so much first party just to survive. Any competition would be starved of games because Nintendo did what they did. It wasnt until the Playstation came around that Nintendo's curse was lifted from the industry. Nintendo was sued for breaking the anti-trust laws of America because Atari thought they were creating a monopoly and Nintendo was not to be monopolizing the industry but the judge saw that Nintendo should let go of their vice grip with their licensing and keylock over third parties which allowed third parties to go to their platform of choice.

There is more about Nintendo, but i'll just leave it at this.

I'm well aware of the iron fist policies that Nintendo used back in the day, they were even more ruthless with retail. While I can see that some of their pratices were abusive, you can't argue that the output of quality games was great & that the consumer was more respected than nowadays, where we are treated as beta testers, lied to, micro-transaction dry milked by broken sequel games on release, on top of that we have to pay $300 extra to play these games on-line for a period of 6 years.

Nintendo was ruthless with 3rd parties so that we could enjoy great products, Sony/MS let 3rd parties do whatever & we the consumers pay for the consequences, worse they are stepping up 3rd parties mal-practices: Sony DriveClub & MS Halo: Master Chief Collection comes to mind...