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« on: March 07, 2004, 07:03:02 PM »
The way I see the whole issue is like this. I went into Best Buy yesterday looking for some CDs. All around me I saw XBox adds and software which drew my eye. When I looked at what you could play on the demo, they were all third party titles that could be found on other consoles. What I think catches an average gamers eye is at how the system looks so powerful and promising, until they see what there is to play. I mean, come on the biggest thing that they had to offer was Halo 2! I also noticed that there was very little to find of the Nintendo area. All that was on display were games like Sonic and Mario. This in my opinion made Gamecube look weak in comparison. Now, I am not trying to promote XBox because I will always be loyal and faithful to Nintendo, but I think that the two main issues that they have to work on that were listed in this article is maturing their look, and third party support. I think that Johnnyboy117 made a great point on how Sony's football games sell poorly just to lure third party in to take over(EA and Sega). I think that Nintendo needs to do what Sony does in this issue: release their own games a month apart from eachother, and give third party the chance to gain some popularity. Sony has done this with games like Jak and Daxster and Ratchet and Clank and has seem to work.
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