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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: Don't Leave Me Now
« on: March 07, 2004, 07:26:06 PM »
Words cannot describe how sick and tired i am of hearing this over and over again. Yes, Some third party's are abandoning Nintendo. All of which present valid but very poor excuses for their titles lack of sales. When most of the time. These third party's are the ones to blame. Edios. Releasing hitman 2 a long time after it was released and readily available on the other 2 platform's with little to no improvements. And they wonder why it didn't sell? Lucas arts?. I don't know where this came from. I was under the impression that most of the Cube games they have sold so far are just about on par with those of the xbox. However, Im sure that both the Cube and xbox are no where close to the sales they get on PS2. So in that regard. Shouldn't xbox suffer the same fate? Midway and Acclaim i wont even bothering commenting on. Sega sports was a blow. But lets face it. EA's the big dog when it comes to sport games.
What do all of them have in common? Most of these third party's simply port games to Game Cube with no improvements extras or incentive for anyone to chose to buy it over the other versions. Its just one sloppy port after another. Nothing that just screams BUY ME. I have extras the other two versions wont have. How can Nintendo hope to change these third party's? To push them to make better ports and add extras that they seem very happy to provide other console games with? Nintendo cant hand over a wad of cash to each and every third party to add some exclusive content or make a good port. Or even to pay third party's that threaten to leave. Nintendo cant afford to do that. Unlike Sony and m$. Nintendo's profits come from games alone. They don't have an endless tower of money to reach into every time something goes wrong. They have to fund their own games and hardware as it is. So think realistically here. Besides going bankrupt trying. How can Nintendo change this trend? Im sorry if that came out rude or vile. Im just very frustrated with all the negative press Nintendos been getting lately. Some of it is valid and called for. But some of the things that get pinned on Nintendo these days is just wrong. Sorry
What do all of them have in common? Most of these third party's simply port games to Game Cube with no improvements extras or incentive for anyone to chose to buy it over the other versions. Its just one sloppy port after another. Nothing that just screams BUY ME. I have extras the other two versions wont have. How can Nintendo hope to change these third party's? To push them to make better ports and add extras that they seem very happy to provide other console games with? Nintendo cant hand over a wad of cash to each and every third party to add some exclusive content or make a good port. Or even to pay third party's that threaten to leave. Nintendo cant afford to do that. Unlike Sony and m$. Nintendo's profits come from games alone. They don't have an endless tower of money to reach into every time something goes wrong. They have to fund their own games and hardware as it is. So think realistically here. Besides going bankrupt trying. How can Nintendo change this trend? Im sorry if that came out rude or vile. Im just very frustrated with all the negative press Nintendos been getting lately. Some of it is valid and called for. But some of the things that get pinned on Nintendo these days is just wrong. Sorry
