Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[DonFerrari]

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

Nope, I haven't... give a valid reason then for a publisher to ignore SG-1000 and release on NES and be mandated to keep that game exclusive for 2 years with no monetary incentive besides you either do that or you leave... when PS was a strong alternative they left and never truly came back. How is that for 3rd party satisfaction for you? Or you think they don't release on Nintendo just to be mean?

Give a valid reason for a 3rd party to choose Famicom over SG-1000, they released the same day and both started at 0 units sold, if the restrictions were so bad they could have released their games on that device instead. They CHOSE TO develop games for Nintendo instead of Sega.

What about the strong 4th Gen alternatives? PC-Engine had a few million headstart on SNES in Japan, Genesis was virtually tied with SNES in the west, why didn't 3rd parties jump ship to them in the late 80s/early 90s? Why did Capcom make Street Fighter & Mega Man exclusive to SNES, why did Square keep Final Fantasy exclusive to SNES, why did Enix keep Dragon Quest exclusive to SNES?

They eventually switched from Nintendo because of their decision to stick with cartridges when 3rd parties were ready to move to CD. If N64 was CD based it would have kept most of its 3rd party support.

See Rols answer...

The 3rd parties saw the potential on Nintendo console more than in Sega... besides that there is the case that Nintendo were stronger already because of the titles they release on arcade were making them more of a name than Sega... and plus that you have to remember that developing for two devices at the time could be not possible for some studios because of the differences in HW... if you recall a lot of games were exclusive to NES/SNES or MS/MD at that time because of the exigences of Nintendo.