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[brahm2]

[Sir Auros]

QUOTE (brahm2 @ Aug 12 2003, 12:47 AM)

Start of more bad things to come?

Doubt it. Nintendo's been in the business way too long to go under all of a sudden and the poor sales of both the Xbox and Gamecube consoles are hardly the fault of their respective companies. Sony got the PS2 out first, it was backwards compatible with the most popular console of the previous generation, and it still has the best 3rd party support.

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was the first out of the gate on the next generation, but I hope they have some of their trademark excellent first party games up for the launch because I'd worry that the same thing that happened to the Dreamcast would happen to the next Nintendo console...bastards at EB...

[pdexter]

Yeah, being first to the market with a new generation console isn't necessarily a good thing, as Sega have proven so many times.

Nintendo really need to attract third party developers to their system- that's what it all comes down to.

People argued that it was the difficulty in programming for Sega's multi processor systems (Saturn) that lead to its demise, but sony have proven that theory wrong with the PS2.

Having the most powerful system isn't enough to win the battle, either, as sony's last two products show.

It's all about third party developer support.

Sure, everyone loves Nintendo's classic series (Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc) and not many people would argue against the fact that their games show a level of polish unseen on other consoles. But the fact remains, how many revisions of these games can people play without looking for others to add to their collection.

And if that's all that's available, it doesn't make for a very appealing console, does it?