Honestly, Sony's best "chance" right now is to develop internally more. Microsoft seems to be very good at throwing money around and snatching things up. Rare anyone? Nintendo had to respond to this by doing something drastic internally since they get less 3rd party support then anyone. The same thing slowly may happen to Sony. The developers are only loyal to who throws the most money at them. Microsoft has the most. Remember that.

Your guess is totally wrong. It had nothing to do with Nintendo's first party titles and everything to do with how they treated third-party developers.

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Sony has a weak first party games system...they have a lot to work on.[/QUOTE]

Please.

Microsoft has a weak first-party. If all the third parties and their IP's went up in smoke, MS would be in the most serious trouble.

if you mean internal development with zero help for 3rd parties on their systems.. no. Sony will support 3rd parties just not focus on their exclusives.

if all 3rd parties left M$ all they would have is Halo, Forza, and whatever else they publish which isnt alot. Plus with Bungie being 3rd party now if they left M$ would be screwed royally.

The days of the 3rd party exclusive are dwinling quickly. The long term winner will be the company that can put out the most Quality, and diverse 1st party games in quanity, while still keeping third parties to produce multi plat games for them. At the moment Sony is the company that is in the best position to do so. Nintendo can do it as well, but they still have some fences to mend with many 3rd party developers. MS is really in the weak seat here as they have little 1st party support at all. this is the right move for Sony, and honestly I think they are doing a pretty good job of it. I really kind of see this as being a transition generation for the Industry. The company that sets themslves up the best for next gen could be a diffacult player to deal with for many generation to come.

Thanks for explaining what I "mean". Good to know.

The least they can do is support 3rd party, unlike Nintendo. Is that enough? Maybe. Do you think they should risk it?

I don't think Sony is treating them much better. That is my personal opinion too, maybe I am wrong. It just seems a bit odd to me that Sony would make the same mistake (albeight less in magnitude) that Nintendo did.

They show they are supporting them with each GDC and dev SKU update.

it is definitely a valid option in the fight of companies.

i don't understand what the problem is. sony is still getting the third party games. so what if they lose exclusivity? bottom line, playstation owners still get the games. that's all that matters.