| zorg1000 said:
It really makes me wonder if Nintendo is truly going for a unified approach where all or most games are playable on either the handheld or console then will the likes of Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Activision port their games to it? Wii U doesnt have the install base so these publishers don't feel the need to port over games for 200-300k or so sales and while 3DS does have a decent install base (over 30 million in the west) it doesn't have the specs to handle ports so it can only run cheap spinoffs and these publishers don't want to build games from the ground up for 200-300k or so sales. So in theory if NX handheld/console are able to share games and able to run ports of 3rd party games, would 3rd parties release them if they were able to muster up 500k-1 million sales for ports of games like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Madden, FIFA? |
If it was actually able to push as much as a million I'd imagine those ports would happen. Especially for the sports games. I don't think just lumping in the handheld install base would guarantee that though. It's more of a demographics issue than an install base one. FIFA 14 on PS4 sold more in Europe on the console's launch week than FIFA 15 has sold on the 3DS worldwide lifetime despite the huge install base differences there. FIFA 15 PS4 week one in Europe sold more than all four FIFAs worldwide lifetime combined on 3DS.
It'll also depend on how they actually handle a unified approach. How powerful would it be, and would there be any differences when playing it handheld versus hooked up to a tv?
