| Birimbau said: Can I predict that Nintendo will continue being excluded by most third party games again? |
It was probably inevitable to some degree anyway. Even with the GameCube with hardware parity, the GameCube sold less of pretty much all the major multiplats in those days aside from very small examples like Soul Calibur 2 selling more on the GCN than XBox because it had Link in it. But there's only so many games you can shove Link or Mario into.
It sucks, but it is what it is. Sony/MS are just too big and even if Nintendo did spec a reasonably powerful machine (2.5 TFLOP say) ... it's now going to be eclipsed easily by Neo/Scorpio and guess which one of the three will be the lowest priority for third parties (not that I blame them).
At least us older Nintendo fans will always have the NES and SNES to look back upon with fondness. Those days were glorious, it's actually funny because at that time Nintendo was synonmous with having the widest variety of games.
For Nintendo now, the battle is to be relevant at all. If NX between the portable and console models combined (assuming they fall into that) can sell 60 million units (the same as the current 3DS) ... I think that will be considered a reasonable success or at least enough to make a good sized profit on.
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