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Soundwave on 25 August 2015
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spemanig said:
jonathanalis said:
third party abandoned 3DS because of the card price? even selling at 40$
i dont think so.
selling games at 60$, with 2015 technology instead of 2011' s.
So, i think theres no problem for third party support.


The 3DS exists in a market where multiplatform releases are rare and discs don't exist. The NX will exist in a market where multiplats are the majority and discs are the de facto standard form of media.

So yes, there would be a huge problem with third party support. There's no competition against carts on the 3DS. Competition killed carts on console and would do it again now.


They're never going to have "great" third party support again barring a miracle. Even if they made a machine that was identical to the PS4, that train has long since passed into the night and they've lost that audience. Sony/MS are not going to just hand it over.

Even in the GameCube days when they had basic parity with hardware, GCN third party games almost always sold a good deal less than even their XBox versions. In very small specific cases this wasn't true, like Soul Calibur 2, but how many games can you shove Link into?

I think the goal now is more realistically to retain/increase Japanese developer support. Japanese developers want to support Nintendo moreso IMO, the main stumbling block is the Wii U has the hardware power but not the userbase Japanese devs needs, the 3DS has the userbase, but because it's so ancient tech wise it can't do modern higher-end games justice in many cases (ie: Square-Enix cannot put any type of Final Fantasy XV or Kingdom Hearts 3 on it, because the power gap is simply ridiculously large, DQXI deals with it by basically making an entirely different game for the 3DS but not every game is going to to do that). 

If you can get that and some basics from Western devs (even just maintaining the Western support the Wii U had for it's first two holidays), that's pretty much decent enough for Nintendo. NX like any Nintendo hardware post-SNES will sink or swim based on Nintendo's IPs. 

Beyond that if they can get these IP on a portable format, it gives them a legitimate different way to enjoy said franchises (unlike the GameCube). I wouldn't mind being able to play something a fairly high end version of FIFA or even a scaled back Kingdom Hearts 3 or something on the road. That's something the iPad/smartphones really don't do, but you can't exactly put your PS4 in your back pack either.