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Phenomajp13 on 14 February 2024
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Soundwave said:
Phenomajp13 said:

WiiU lost support from Nintendo to 3DS, GC lost support to GBA, and N64 lost support to GB color. Nintendo no longer splits their support between two consoles. Switch fixed that.

N64 would've sold 100+ million units IMO if they had used CD-ROMs and retained games like Final Fantasy VII, that was a different issue. 

Wii U and GameCube had problems with a split library sure, but they had basic poor execution as well, Wii U was tied to the Wii brand which was declining rapidly and GameCube got stuck in an overcrowded market with MS taking massive losses and trying to normalize that for everyone (stupid MS). 

I agree Soundwave that Nintendo home consoles could have done well with better 3rd party support. Nintendo screwed up the 3rd party support and was left to trying to carry two separate platforms single handedly. If they had a Sony like approach with their home consoles while still carrying their handhelds, things could have been different. Instead they let Sony become the go to 3rd party console and forced themselves to be self sustaining. Now with Nintendo releasing one platform to carry their business, they are able to single handily carry a platform. This is good because the 3rd party support can just be icing on the cake, meanwhile everyone in the industry fights over 3rd party titles. This is why Sony can't grow and MS is losing big time. The audience for those games is too split.