12th December 2004, 8:38 PM
This isn't much different from the N64 or the GC launch, both which went a few months without decent games from Nintendo. I see a few, but not too many potentially solid 3rd party games coming out before Nintendo launches their hard hitters - again, all of which don't have any solid dates and most of which probably won't see light until at least Q2 or 3, or knowing Nintendo delays, Q4 and later next year. Again, the wireless internet support for DS is still somewhere up in the air despite being confirmed and with built in hardware. Nintendo was quite correct in realizing WiFi is the next logical step in handheld gaming, but they failed to realize a full on strategy, instead only going half baked with it.
As you can see, 3rd party support did a whole lot of good for the GC in the midst of competition. Nintendo knows its being buffetted from all sides after that GC launch. A little too late for this generation, but it decided that in order to sell itself, it needed to recruit alot of different companies to help it put out its own hard hitting franchises faster and in more volume.
Yet again, I can't seem to understand why Nintendo's launch strategy for the DS isn't as aggressive as it potentially can be. If Nintendo was going to stick it to the PSP, they would have poured tons or resources into nailing down at least one killer app, real deal game, from software titles that will sell like crazy like Advanced Wars, Pokemon, Zelda, Metroid, among others I've listed, coming out each month from now until the end of next year.
The problem isn't the fact that Nintendo won't be making the games - they will, but its the timing and system support thats wanting.
As you can see, 3rd party support did a whole lot of good for the GC in the midst of competition. Nintendo knows its being buffetted from all sides after that GC launch. A little too late for this generation, but it decided that in order to sell itself, it needed to recruit alot of different companies to help it put out its own hard hitting franchises faster and in more volume.
Yet again, I can't seem to understand why Nintendo's launch strategy for the DS isn't as aggressive as it potentially can be. If Nintendo was going to stick it to the PSP, they would have poured tons or resources into nailing down at least one killer app, real deal game, from software titles that will sell like crazy like Advanced Wars, Pokemon, Zelda, Metroid, among others I've listed, coming out each month from now until the end of next year.
The problem isn't the fact that Nintendo won't be making the games - they will, but its the timing and system support thats wanting.