One of the biggest criticisms of the Nintendo was its lack of third party support throughout the lifetime of the Wii and Wii U. While first party titles that sell systems, in an industry where many consumers can only reasonably afford one console per cycle, third party support provides a deeper assurance and safety to the consumer that they will be able to play all the best titles as they’re released. Now Nintendo has moved the ball forward to assure their support is there at the consoles onset.
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Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
It's one thing for third party games to release on a Nintendo console, it's another to see how well these third party games sell on a Nintendo console to ellicit more support from publishers.
I think they meant "locking in," not "locking down." This isn't a news article about Nintendo going further to lock down the system, they're trying to "lock in" deals.
Good luck on that. Zombie U didn't last very long to stay exclusive on the Wii U. I don't think porting an old game with a different architecture are very appealing to the third party developers in a first place.
Saying and doing are two different things, because we all know how quick that can change. In my opinion, if the Switch makes for easy ports and developers put their games on the system at the same time as the others then their sales could be better.
If you want a game and own more than one console I'm sure waiting another year is out of the question when it's already out for the other system you own.
The fact that the list of third parties on board with the Switch is roughly twice the amount of the Wii U before it launched, if not more, shows that there's a LOT more confidence in the capabilities of the console from third parties this gen than there was last gen.
This can only mean good things for support of the console, and this, in theory, SHOULD be increasing consumer confidence in the system.
Hopefully the launch lineup reveal in January will quell a lot of the naysayers.