Let's be clear, every consoles need some sort of third parties rather its small dev groups to indies, they will still be around due to low budget, but do you see a future for the big third parties supporters like Ubisoft, EA, Capcom, etc. With all these talk about devs being let go, quiting, unable to reach sell marks like Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs, selling over 3 millions but ended up being a failure still, and next gen rolling out, I see all these big, huge expensive games that cost just about or even more then movies, gain so much hype and marketing til at the end, the game end up selling like close to a millon torward the end of the year. I know Sony and other publisher promise that the prices of games will remain the same ,but I have the feeling, they'll be force to rather bump up the price or force more shady DLC to gain more prohit. PS: As neat the PS4 is with its specs, I fear sony may not be able to afford it if it doesn't sell well with in the first 6 months or so. The more I read about the PS4, the more I feel the PS4 could end up being another over hype Vita.

Nope. Third parties are doomed and will have to go first party.

Seriously, how do you do it? :D

of course!

I can no longer acceppt the discrimination of 2nd parties.
Always talk about 1st parties and 3rd parties ,but no one cares about 2nd parties-and what about fourth parties.



Are they important?
look a huge they are,how much money they make and their stock value.

I think they are very important:Many Nintendofans now claim that they don't need 3rd parties(have they any other choice?)but at the same time they complain about EA(the anti christ) and unleashed a huge shitstorm because of the rayman delay.Confusing.

Nintendo paid tons of money to exclusive monster hunter and dragon quest.
Considering that MS paid lots of money to get sony exclusives i'd say they are very important.

i think they are important:without 3rd parties i could only play mario/zelda/pokemon/animal crossing on nintendo console-again and again and again.no other choice.(
on 360 halo,gears,forza again again and again
on ps3 gt,killzone,gow again and again and again

imo this is the worst case scenario:always playing the same shit for decades and no other choice .

yes

I think big 3rd parties are given too much power

they put the industry in risk seeking their personal benefit, i think some sort of control is needed...

One reason I think so many 3rd party devs have shut down/lost money this gen is that PS3/360 were just too overpowered. When they released they sold at a loss of about $200 or more. Being so powerful caused development costs to skyrocket and pretty much only the bigger gaming companies could afford that. I think 7th gen consoles should have been somewhere in between Wii and PS360 power wise. That could have made development costs much lower, and Microsoft/Sony might not have lost so much money at thr beginning of this gen.

But Sales does = Business and Business = Life (for the company.)

80% of software sales from MSFT/Sony is third party companies.