Alright well Nintendo has always dominated its home platforms and has never actually lost to a third party on the home front as far as I know. But that has begun to change with the Wii and DS with development prices so cheap third parties can create games that look just as good as their first party counter parts.
EA,UbiSoft are the perfect examples, they have come close and actually I believe EA did beat out Nintendo during a month last year. Nintendo being the number one publisher on Nintendo built platforms has begun to become a little risky. With publishers like UbiSoft able to just churn out TouchGeneration titles from their Petz series and so fourth with EA's ability to do pretty much the same. Nintendo has become the target with all these publishers trying to take the top spot.
The newest challenger is expected by prominent analysts to replace EA as the worlds largest game publisher as well as the biggest threat to Nintendo as the number one publisher. Who is this big publisher, Activision Blizzard! With the Guitar Hero games coming to the Wii and Rockband from EAGames it would appear that Nintendo could get left out this year.
The fight between EA and Activision Blizzard is going to get very messy and Nintendo is going to be caught in the cross fire. With its own music based title expected this fall Nintendo has created a war machine that it itself can't tame.
Is Activision Blizzard, EA or UbiSoft going to have the man power to for the first time in history beat out Nintendo on its own platform?
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
