21st February 2003, 10:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
You sure want to see Nintendo stay permanantly in last place... because if they did that they would. Drop 3rd parties? Are you sane? That would KILL Nintendo... they NEED third party games! Nintendo doesn't want another N64... they do want third party games... which is a very good idea. Nintendo alone (or with just a couple of 3rd parties) cannot make enough games to fill a console's lineup, as the N64 proved... and I sure don't think that will change anytime soon. One company just can't do that... Nintendo already makes far, far more great exclusive games than MS or Sony as it is... No, Nintendo needs far better marketing (I'd settle for just more marketing...) and some more things to draw in (and keep) users that other consoles have -- like online games, harddrives, etc...
Which is why I said that they need to drastically increase their 1st/2nd party throughput. Buy as many small developers as they can and improve them.
Microsoft have tried the third party approach, getting many of PS2's ports, and where has it gotten them? A 10% market share. Whooptey fucking do.
Nobody buys Nintendo products for the third party games as it is (just look at sales figures), which is why they seriously need to increase their in-house efforts.
And I never said drop third party support, just forget about the notion that that's what they need.
Quote:Nintendo already makes far, far more great exclusive games than MS or Sony as it is...
You've all had this arguement with me before ;)
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!