Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[bouzane]

Materia-Blade said:

bouzane said:

Nintendo is clearly taking the worst approach to courting third party developers, there is absolutely no other way to spin this.

@OP

The industry is already in a crisis. Microsoft has lost nearly a third of their global market and the XBOne will likely see a contraction in sales numbering in the tens of millions compared to the 360. The growth Sony is experiencing with the PS4 will not offset the contraction in their handheld division and Nintendo is going to shed well over a hundred million users this generation.

"Nintendo is clearly taking the worst approach to courting third party developers, there is absolutely no other way to spin this."

Not only that's not true, you didn't understand the subject. sony and ms relations with 3rd parties aren't  sustainable.

At least they have relationships with third party developers. What is so wrong with their approaches when it has worked so well for them traditionally, and by traditionally I mean for over a decade (two in Sony's case)? I know they are overly permissive of unfinished and broken games but Nintendo hasn't exactly been perfect allowing some laughable garbage to release with the Nintendo Seal of Quality emblazoned upon them. Let me put it this way, the PS2 sold more third party software than every Nintendo home console combined and the PS4 looks like it will easily settle into second place. What am I failing to understand here and what is so unsustainable about Sony's / Microsoft's approach?