Nintendo Fans Vs. Third-Party Developers & Entitlement

[MikeRox]

se7en7thre3 said:
I haven't had 3rd party "entitlement" since the GCN days, and that was b/c everything back then was on equal ground. When the PS exclusive GTA contract expired, and OG Xbox finally got it but Cube didn't, I was legit pissed.

But as long as Ninty stays a gen or 2 behind on HW power and features, I will never blame 3rd parties, Its like, after Nintendo got dumped by a certain fanbase during GC era, they just stopped trying (weaker hw etc). For wii U I'm still baffled how Nintendo didn't take advantage of the 1 yr headstart by having a real next gen console. After 2 straight gens of this weak hw bs, I think we can put to rest any dream of a grand Ninty return. The competitive SNES days are dunzo, faneto.

That's why us Fusion enthusiasts discuss theories that will help Nintendo fix some of their problems, without factoring in / practically 0 regard for major 3rd parties.

To be fair, even with the GCN there were issues that prevented many 3rd party games being easily ported. Max Payne got cancelled because the system didn't have enough RAM. However, this was an architechture choice rather than a "weaker system" choice.

Nintendo (very admirably I must say) went for shit hot super fast RAM, but as a result, didn't put as much of it in the box as the PS2 and especially OG Xbox had. This is great for environments being streamed in (as games like Metroid Prime do) and meant loading times on the GC developed software was lightning fast in comparison with especialy the PS2 (XB used HDD caching to help) however when games were designed to load a load of data into the RAM all at once, the GCN struggled.

Rockstar/Remedy stated they couldn't get the game running up to snuff on GCN and so that version of the game got axed.

In the case of GTA, you've also got the capacity limitations of the discs. Can you really break a game like GTA into multiple discs easily? Plus it has the added development costs. By that point in the systems life, it wasn't really worthwhile doing. While the Xbox was basically a PC in a box with it's Pentium 3 Processor and Ge Force GPU making that port much more straight forward.