Looking back, 3rd party support on the 3DS wasn't that great

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HoangNhatAnh said:

xxbrothawizxx63 said:

The point of my argument was that a number of Western studios supported the Vita instead of the 3DS because of the power gap. We weren't arguing about whether Sony and its partners lived up to the promise of the Vita. AC and CoD were major showings or support that the 3DS never got. The platform died before anyone considered doing more. 

Well, in that case, 3DS have two Tom Clancy games and an exclusive Lego City, prequel to Wii U ver but yeah, Western support for both platforms since 2014 are mostly small games and indies.

A port of a 6 year old game (that also ran significantly worse than Declassified) and a SRPG that was actually good, but uninteresting vs the burgeoning mobile market they were trying to stave off. Tom Clancy also didn't even approach the market share of CoD and AC at the time.  

AC liberation alone is better than almost any equivalent 3DS title. Lego is the closest, but has reduced impact since it's a pseudo port. Batman Arkham Origins is another standout.

Still, the support was ridiculously light and didn't even best its competitor that showed greater weakness almost immediately. Batman had to abandon the gameplay that made it popular to make its way to the system (even if it was a solid game).  Many of the games seemed to be "failures" too. 

The 1st year of 3DS was terrible in terms of overall quality (most of them were already mediocre Wii ports, but ran poorly on the 3DS's hardware), but what little was there evaporated quickly when it was apparent software sales were completely dead on the Wii. Ports just became completely unrealistic. 

Last edited by xxbrothawizxx63 - on 10 September 2018