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KLXVER said:
Dulfite said:

Regardless, the Nintendo base was never as high as it was with NES and SNES. There were a lot of people gaming on those devices due to the 3rd parties.

I guess, but it seems like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, DK etc...are the games people bring up when remembering those consoles.

True, I won't deny that. Nintendo 1st party does much better when it has third party support (because that increases hardware sales, thereby increasing 1st party softeware sales as well). But once 3rd parties started abandoning Nintendo a lot of those neutral gamers went with them to whatever device would play their stuff (ps1/2/3 and xbox/xbox360).