RolStoppable said:
You are on a sales website, so most of the evidence is only a few clicks away. Additionally, you should be familiar enough with video game history to know that third parties picked the NES over other consoles and many longrunning third party IPs came to life on it. Back then nobody would say that "you only buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games," a statement that is a double-edged sword. While it's most of the time used with the intent to downplay Nintendo consoles, it also means that the third party games aren't worth a damn. And if third party games aren't deemed worth buying... well, that's a pretty obvious reason why they struggle to sell in bigger numbers. |
Developers flocked to the NES because it was by far the best selling console of the time. Their policies back then did indeed help in stopping the flood of crappy titles that plagues the Atari 2600, but the reason 3rd parties did best on the NES in the NES era was because the only succesful platform was the NES. Now there are other platforms which suit 3rd parties more, hence why many of them ignore Nintendo's platforms nowadays.
