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BengaBenga on 08 July 2008
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Kurakasa said:
BengaBenga said:
 

 

Did you really just compare the system that virtually launched the vidogame industry with one of 10 years later? Just Wow.

Beside the fact that the industry has grown enormously, in a big way due to Nintendo, the following companies had great NES sales with multiple titles: Capcom, Konami, Taito, Tecmo, Square, Hudson, HAL, Rare, Infogrames, Namco, Bandai, Codemasters, Chunsoft (later Enix), Intelligent Systems.

Ooh, wait, a lot of the most well known (3rd party) franchise of the current generation even started on NES: Final Fantasy: check, Castlevania: check, Dragon Quest: check, Mega Man: check. Metal Gear: yep, on NES (didn't start there).

The NES was brilliant for 3rd parties, how else did you think a lot of the franchises are still known today?

 

Now you are trolling or at least flaming. I just corrected him, that was not meant to compare those sales. Just to define what "great" is.

Well, now this is not going to go anywhere else but getting me banned so I won't reply the latter part of your post. Except that I DO know FF and MGS.

I'm not going to ban you for arguing with me, I'm not that sad. I don't have a clue however how I am trolling or flaming. I completely owned your points, but that doesn't make it trolling.

But you're saying "SNES had ok third party sales, NES did not" and afterwards you're trying to prove that by comparing it with the PS2. Sorry, but however you're spinning that you're comparing the two, and I explained why you were wrong.

Besides, margins on software were a lot higher in those days, the NES was on the market for a really long time and development costs were lower, especially at the end of the NES. The basis of these big software houses (predominantly Japanese back then) was founded in the NES days, please tell me how this was not a great time for 3rd parties.