Nintendo Switch has become the fastest selling video game system of all time in the US

[DonFerrari]

RolStoppable said:

DonFerrari said: 

Sony didn't even try to support it themselves in the first place so that is enough reason to believe 3rd parties wouldn't put much weight on it... still they managed to get support on PSP that was their first try.

Nope Rol, you read what he said, he was very straight claiming that Switch (as in concept) could only be made by Nintendo, and the post have been moved.

I have no issue with you thinking Sony or Apple couldn't pull it, but you can't assure it would be impossible... Apple was able to make an inovative idea based on others previous tries and make it a runaway success. Sony was able to turn Nintendo refutal on partnership on a first try that gone over NES and SNES.

I conceed that Switch is a good idea and that only Nintendo could do it a sucess by only having 1st party to rely on, but as I said others could have made a success hybrid on their way.

Sony had their tier 2 studios working on Vita, including the release of Uncharted at launch. They had quite a few games in 2012, but they all fell flat. When Sony made the decision to give up on Vita, they still had first party games releasing throughout 2013, including Killzone and Tearaway; the games were too far into development to outright cancel them.

The reason why the PSP got third party support so easily is because of the PS1 and PS2. Third parties trusted Sony. But likewise, doubts were rising when PSP third party software sales continually declined in the USA and Europe. Unlike the PSP which could leverage strong trust, Vita didn't have this benefit anymore, so Sony had to earn it. It's because of this that it stands to reason that Sony would have to earn the trust of third parties for every future portable console, hence why turning a hybrid into a success is so farfetched for Sony.

As for cycycychris's post, you must be isolating a single sentence when all sentences belonged together and formed the complete context. There's no other way I can explain why you think that goalposts have been moved.

Apple has had no success in the video game business. Your argument here is as flawed as when someone claims that Nintendo could make a successful phone because they've made successful video game consoles.

He made a single sentence...

Very pretty your explanation for trust on PSP and not on PSVita, and the trust for PS1 came from?

Nope no flaw in saying Apple could make a succesfull HW. And also there wouldn't be much flaw in saying Nintendo could make a phone (except that their good part is on SW not HW)