An excellent first party is a strength, not a weakness

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Arius Dion on 01 March 2009

Excellent read, again. And something I've been echoing for a while as well. Attitudes from fanboys and companies alike "Can't compete with Nintendo Products" always sounds like some nonsensical cop out.

My other favorite line is "Without Nintendo 1st party games Wii's games suck" and? Who's fault is that? It certainly isn't Nintendo's. I've read something similar here before, It was probably something you wrote Rol, about how the gaming media takes a positive (nintendo's first party quality) and tries to make it negative.

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Khuutra on 01 March 2009

This really deserves more discussion.

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mike_intellivision on 01 March 2009

Looking at Japan (at least) for the current and the immediate past generation, the first-party/third-party ratios of top sellers is reversed.

For Nintendo, 16 of the top 20 sellers were first-party.
For Sony and Microsoft, 16 of the top 20 sellers were third-party.

People think it is bad if you make good software.

I think Sony and Microsoft wish they were as cursed as Nintendo in this regard.

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famousringo on 01 March 2009

Rol is just trying to build up his credibility so he can fool more people with his next joke thread.

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