padib said:
I partially agree with your top points, but as for home console vs handheld, I don't agree that it's apples to oranges. Rol is absolutely right. If the PS brand is king in home consoles, Nintendo is king on handhelds right now. There is overwhelming support for the PS brand, as proven by Rol's point on the PS3 being supported by 3rd parties. That assumption is never possible on a Nintendo home console, 3rd parties will dump it immediately if it struggles. The question is though, why is this bias a reality? If people are treating another person kindly and me unfairly, I need to ask myself the question: "are they being unfair really, or am I just hard to deal with?" I think the same should be asked about Nintendo. When they are winning, 3rd parties are reluctant to participate with them (high Vita support), when they are losing 3rd parties will not lift a finger (GC, WiiU). So the question is, what has Sony done to win the trust of 3rd parties to the point where they are willing to lose money for Soney to keep the PS brand alive, and what has Nintendo done to lose that trust. I don't think it's a question we can answer in this thread, but I think it's the eventual progression of this train of thought. |
Sure we can, people just want to ignore it. From the jump Sony was a pleasure for 3rd parties to work with or at least MUCH easier to work with than Nintendo as evidenced by there treatment of 3rd parties in the NES/SNES era and to a lesser extent the N64 where they flat out refuse to listen to them. Sony listens, for the most part.
Sony has proven themselves Ninty...meh. Even when SOny was floundering they opened to 3rd parties and asked how they could make it better, see they WORKED with those guys even sent some devs when a game wasnt working properly, something that Ninty wont do. So yes there is your answer its quite simple. Sony and MS are willing to put in the work where Nintendo isnt. But people will ignore that because it will put Ninty in a negative light
