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ToastyJaguar on 02 June 2008

even Rare is making games for the DS now.

And i think Mistwalker are going to make a Blue Dragon game for it.




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Viper1 on 02 June 2008

 

 



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DKII on 02 June 2008

Even *if* the same happens to the Wii, it'll take a fair bit longer with the longer development cycles.



ctk495 on 02 June 2008
Soriku said:
sc94597 said:
HappySqurriel said:

From what I can remember the improvement in third party support on the DS started off awful in 2004, and it slowly improved through 2005 and 2006; by E3 2006 developers were really starting to back the DS with many more good games. It wasn't until 2007 that the DS really had the third party support that was appropriate for a system which was as dominant as it is.

Oh so it got better gradually over time. I hope the wii doesn't take too long to get ds levels.

 


Well, the DS took well over 2 and almost 3 years to become dominant in terms of software. The Wii has been out for what, 18 months? That's not even 2 years. And not only that, but every third party dev was thinking the PS3 was going to "win" the console war again this time. In the DS's case, everyone thought the PSP would crush the DS. The DS had a multitude of minigames and such. The EXACT SAME thing is happening to the Wii as it has happened to the DS.

The Wii is going to get better support over time. It's clear in Japan that the Wii is the dominant #1 console for this gen, so we should expect tons of Japanese support. In the West, it might be the same but we'll see. It seems Western devs prefer the combined PS3-360 user base so I'm not sure they'll support the Wii as heavily as Japanese devs, but we'll see.

I expect big things at E3, and TGS which will follow into 2009.

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Ickalanda on 02 June 2008

It just slowly kept getting better and better. A lot of people thought the PSP was going to win for some reason because it beat the DS in every system spec other than lacking a touch screen. They also thought the PlayStation name would carry it through. System Specs have never been a deciding factor though, in fact the weakest system of this generation and the last were the weakest systems in the group.



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Viper1 on 02 June 2008
Ickalanda said:
It just slowly kept getting better and better. A lot of people thought the PSP was going to win for some reason because it beat the DS in every system spec other than lacking a touch screen. They also thought the PlayStation name would carry it through. System Specs have never been a deciding factor though, in fact the weakest system of this generation and the last were the weakest systems in the group.

Tthe weaskest (weaker) system has always won their generation.



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sc94597 on 02 June 2008
Viper1 said:
Ickalanda said:
It just slowly kept getting better and better. A lot of people thought the PSP was going to win for some reason because it beat the DS in every system spec other than lacking a touch screen. They also thought the PlayStation name would carry it through. System Specs have never been a deciding factor though, in fact the weakest system of this generation and the last were the weakest systems in the group.

Tthe weaskest (weaker) system has always won their generation.

Not always true. There is the snes that is the exception.

 



LordTheNightKnight on 02 June 2008
DKII said:
Even *if* the same happens to the Wii, it'll take a fair bit longer with the longer development cycles.

Good thing games like Conduit and Mad World have already started, since even with longer cycles, the Wii outracing the PS3 was clear much sooner than the DS vs PSP.

 

BTW, the PS1 was more powerful than the Saturn for the most part, and the PS2 was more powerful than the Dreamcast, save for lack of texture compression. 



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sc94597 on 02 June 2008
LordTheNightKnight said:
DKII said:
Even *if* the same happens to the Wii, it'll take a fair bit longer with the longer development cycles.

Good thing games like Conduit and Mad World have already started, since even with longer cycles, the Wii outracing the PS3 was clear much sooner than the DS vs PSP.

 

BTW, the PS1 was more powerful than the Saturn for the most part, and the PS2 was more powerful than the Dreamcast, save for lack of texture compression. 

Yeah that is why they said weakest(weaker)

 



Hawkeye on 02 June 2008

Wasnt' 3DO much more powerful than the SNES though?