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Originally posted by: animecyberrat
I never said namco or Bandia wont help I only said it wont make or break anybody. Nintendo DIDNT HAVE EITHER for N64 and it didnt affect them at all.
First of all, considering that the N64 is the console on which Nintendo lost the majority of its ground to Sony, I'd hardly consider using it as an example.
Second, you're missing the big picture here...
We've already established that this will never happen so it's all theory anyway, but the point is not Banco exclusivity is beneficial to any system, more so than you give it credit. You seem to be hailing Square as some godly force of game sales. While I won't deny that they have a strong presence, it was GTA which made the PS2 the #1 seller that it is today, if anything.
But none of that matters now because we're in a generation shift, which is exactly the POINT here. To reiterate what was stated much earlier,
Sony won because the developers were convinced that they were going to be the winner this generation. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you get enough developers to come to you, the rest will follow for fear of being left out, you get the most games and you
win.
Banco exclusivity may or may not help the Rev during its lifespan, but it would be just about the best thing in the WORLD for it to be announced
right now before developers have chosen "sides". The sight of two huge development companies backing Nintendo would turn a lot of heads. Be it money hats or pressure from stock holdings, being able to say, without a doubt, that a certain franchise will only be available on your console directly equates power in the market, the type of power which shows 3rd parties your willingness to effectively FORCE people to buy your console to play a certain game. It's that same force which will sell more games by other 3rd parties, making your console look like a more attractive choice for game development (exclusive or otherwise).
Now, I don't know what's going to happen when that curtain goes up at the Kodak theater, but I do know THIS: if Nintendo doesn't secure 3rd party backing (and I mean SECURE, not have it for 6 months before it goes to the most-popular console), they're out of the home console market. With the cube, they've already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are incapable of releasing enough 1st party games to keep the market satisfied. Unless they can convince 3rd parties to come over to the Rev, it's
over.
Otherwise, all that's left is to let Sony and MS gradually throw around enough money hats to round up all of the 3rd party exclusives. Nintendo will release a 1st party game once every 3 months and a dozen lousy Mario spinoff titles between those three months while their fanbase slowly erodes until they have 5% of the market like Apple computer.
I don't know if Banco could make or break, but I DO know that it could easily be the catalyst in a chain reaction which would force 3rd party developers to at least CONSIDER developing their games for the Rev, if not exclusively, at least AT ALL which is something Nintendo has suffered from this generation and suffered HORRIBLY. Remember how many game ads would list "PS2, Xbox" and no GC? I can't count the number of times I looked at a game ad in a magazine or on TV, saying, "Hmm, looks alright." only to notice the absence of the GC logo from the list of consoles and frown in disappointment.
And Nintendo needs 3rd party support more than they ever did.
1. They're trying something very new and different which could potentially fail.
2. They have a reputation for being 3rd. No one wants to develop for the console of the
2nd loser.
Like I said, make or break is irrelevant. Either way, it would be a STRONG step in the right direction.
-SB
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