Topic: Your First REV downloads

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: IceCold
I agree that with a huge userbase third party support is inevitable (look at PS2 - used DVDs to gain that userbase), but developers care just as much about the 3rd party software tie-in ratio as the installed userbase. The problem is that there are people who buy low quality third party games, but they just don't use Nintendo consoles. We can say all we want about 3rd parties having to actually put in effort into their games, but that doesn't get us anywhere. With a lower tie-in ratio, it would just give developers another reason to ditch third party support. Which is Nintendo's problem, and ours too..

I think this goes back to what Iwata was talking about at the GDC, market disruption. There's not an inherent, indellable market for low quality third party games. No one buys a system because it's got the highest number of bad games. No one goes into the store saying "I'm going to buy a shitty game today". If in offering a slew of inexpensive, high quality legacy titles through the VC system, Nintendo ruins the market for crap... well, it sucks to be Vivendi.

But really, I don't think it hurts Nintendo's position. The quality titles aren't going to come out of Eidos and Vivendi anyhow, they're going to come out of the companies they usually come out of, Capcom, Namco, Sega, Square-Enix... and obviously Nintendo themselves. Those companies have nothing to fear from the 10-20 year old titles, most of which they made themselves. They know how to make a game worth buying.