| yushire said: OK, so whats the games in PSX during its launch then when 3rd party developers dont know what games they'll put on the system since they dont know how to make a game on 3-d yet? And aboout third party support, if third parties now learn their lessons not ditching the Wii, when will the real quality third party games come?
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I'm not sure I understand your first question, but here goes ...
The PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, North America on September 9, 1995, Europe on September 29, 1995, and Oceania in November 1995. The launch price in the American market was US$299 (a price point later used by its successor, the PlayStation 2), and Sony enjoyed a very successful launch with titles of almost every genre, including Battle Arena Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Warhawk, Philosoma, and Ridge Racer. Almost all of Sony's and Namco's launch titles went on to spawn numerous sequels.
Now we all know that the original Playstation and Sega Saturn struggled durring their first year being outsold (by a wide margin) by the Super Nintendo; it was in its second year that Sony really started to see good sales because of a massive influx of third party support (after Nintendo alienated third party publishers) that the Playstation started to take off.
As for your second question ... We have been seeing a steady increase in the quantity and quality of third party games on the Wii since it has been released; I suspect that we will hit a watershed moment at E3 and TGS when third party publishers unveil their efforts for the Wii that began after it launched and will be released for Q3 or 2008 through Q2 of 2009. You can hold me to this prediction on your favourite crow eating thread ...
