Wyrdness said:
Soundwave said:
I don't think the 3DS ecosystem is really that vibrant. You have Nintendo IP that sells well and a small handful of Japanese IP, and even with Japanese third parties, they kinda shunned the system after supporting it early on ... Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Ridge Racer, Kingdom Hearts, Tekken, Metal Gear Solid were all IP on the 3DS early but I guess these games did not sell up to whatever internal expectations were on them because these IP never showed up on the 3DS again after that early period.
Western support of the 3DS is virtually non-existant. I would hope Switch is better than that.
NBA 2K is the one of the biggest Switch third party IPs by the way.
Even for Nintendo games, I'd like a more diverse sales pallette where games other than just Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/DK/etc. sell. I miss the days where a game like F-Zero or Star Fox had a shot at decent sales.
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3DS ecosystem is pretty vibrant as you have strong first party IPs support by decent third party titles, off the top of my head.
RE: Revelations
RE: Mercenaries
KH3D
SFIV
Bravely Default
Bravely Second
DQ Remakes (IV, V, VI, VII, VIII)
DQXI
Monster Hunter Games
MGS3
SMT Games
Persona Q
Etrian Games
Fantasy Life
FIFA Games
FF Explorers
Theatrythm Games
Harvest Moon Games
Inzauma Eleven Games
Lego Series Games
Mighty Gunvolt Games
Moon Chronicles
Pro Evo Games
Project X Zone
Scribblenauts
Sonic Games
Western support for any portable has always been minimal because the western developers have always hated portables this is why Sony struggled to even get their own western studios to develop Vita games, even then the lack of western developers doesn't mean the ecosystem for Nintendo portables isn't there as it very much is which is why they've always dominated. Sales of the games is a different matter altogether and doesn't constitute an ecosystem, even games like RE:Revelations sold the most on 3DS.
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As I said 3DS support was good early on, but then fizzled out.
Where are the subsequent SF, Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, FIFA, Madden, Metal Gear Solid, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Dead or Alive, etc. games in the last 3-4 years?
The machine has basically been whittled down to Nintendo stuff + Monster Hunter + Dragon Quest + Yokai Watch + SMT + LEGO/kid licensed games.
RE: Revelations sold most on 3DS, and then Capcom makes RE: Revelations 2 for every system but the 3DS, lol. That's kinda case in point right there. 3DS started well, but I think developers got discouraged when early sales didn't maybe match some inflated expectations and then the iOS/Android ecosystem became the new portable hotness and devs started to bail on the 3DS.
