What Nintendo learned from Sony

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d21lewis said:

deskpro2k3 said:

 

They still move hardware, just look at PS3. It did not have a lot of third party support, and their momentum was slow but they still end up on top against their main competitor because of their first party.

 

Imagine a Nintendo console with only Nintendo first party games. = Wii U

Many people say that, aligned launches, Sony outsold Xbox 360 from the very beginning. It's just that M$ had a year long head start and Sony didn't overtake them as quickly as originally planned. Sony hasn't been the underdog since like 1996! They've always had great third party support. It's just that, early in the 7th gen, Xbox owners were buying tons of software (often outselling PS3 versions of the same games) so they supported Xbox, as well.

 

C'mon, man. You know this!

 

deskpro2k3 has a point though. they may not ever have been underdogs but they still had to fight unlike previous generations. sales on the launch of the games is one thing but momentum, built by brand can't be achieved by having the second best of everything compared to the xbox 360 in regards to third party (exclusive content, early or exclusive dlc, lead platform) and just matching in first party wouldn't be enough if the xbox 360 already had the advantage with third party.

They had to redifine the gaming experience and it took naughty dog to lead the pack in achieving this with uncharted 2 and obviously sony getting there act together with slim, adverstising and better pricing.  there was interviews done at the time of developers changing their focus to make the ps3 their lead platform as a result of uncharted 2's success. As a result first party games move hardware and can attract more and better third party support to move even more.

My point is that although yeah without third party the playstation brand would be no where near as strong as it is but without very talented first party studios sony would be left with throwing money at problems and that is a game it could not win against "their main competitor".  basically third, first and second party developers are all very important to playstation as a brand.