Khuutra said:
Allow me to clarify. The addition of any software studios who would not be working on the platform otherwise necessarily diversifies and broadens the 3DS software environment. Regardless of whether they're doing it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons, they are absolutely going to expand and enrich the library - if we are willing to assume (reasonably) that they will not be taking away from efforts that would have been leveled otherwise. Considering that the "Ooo, specs!" developers tend to be developers or teams who didn't support the DS, I don't see where we would be losing anything by gaining their games, even if you think of those games as homogeneous. |
Well Capcom would be a good indicator. They left RE5 off the Wii (hopefully just for now) for the wrong reasons (specs, not potential sales which were proven good by RE4), and a common complaint about RE5 is that it's just a flashier RE4 that slaps on some Gears of War elements.
If their 3DS games are also just pretty RE4 knockoffs (RE4's team threw out one of the builds specifically to avoid being a knockoff of the remake of RE1 that 0 was), then it will be the same problem. If they are not, then we really are getting an enriched software library.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs