Re: Poor Nintendo just can\'t keep third party support
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asianflow said:
Nintendo is fighint a losing war on 3rd party support. 3rd parties don't sell well because of the controller and Nintendo games. Yes that sounds weird, but for most people they would rather buy a Nintendo made game vs. a 3rd party because 9 times out of 10 the game is better. But Nintendo has tons of money in the bank, and their Gameboys outsell the PS2. But I love Nintendo games, but I'm more of a Sports Gamer and that's why I traded it in for a Xbox. I wish Nintendo would go 3rd party.
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Good points and we are also not talking about small 3rd parties abandoning Nintendo. A perfect example is Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto series.
It is on PC, PS2 and now a bundle is being made for Xbox. Why is Rockstar leaving the Gamecube out of the mix?
You will notice GTA3 is still in the works for the GBA.
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Simple, at least to me it is. Of the four (PC,GC,PS2,Xbox), which has the least main memory and disk capacity? Gamecube, of course. Sometimes its tough to port a game over to another system with a lot less main memory available. I read some articles about how N64 used to be a B**** to port to because it only had 4MB(!) of RAM. One example of these articles is found here.
I'm sure a game like GTA3 has nearly maxed out its memory requirements, making it difficult to port to a system with tighter constraints.
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bdoughty said:
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asianflow said:
Nintendo is fighint a losing war on 3rd party support. 3rd parties don't sell well because of the controller and Nintendo games. Yes that sounds weird, but for most people they would rather buy a Nintendo made game vs. a 3rd party because 9 times out of 10 the game is better. But Nintendo has tons of money in the bank, and their Gameboys outsell the PS2. But I love Nintendo games, but I'm more of a Sports Gamer and that's why I traded it in for a Xbox. I wish Nintendo would go 3rd party.
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Good points and we are also not talking about small 3rd parties abandoning Nintendo. A perfect example is Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto series.
It is on PC, PS2 and now a bundle is being made for Xbox. Why is Rockstar leaving the Gamecube out of the mix?
You will notice GTA3 is still in the works for the GBA.
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Simple, at least to me it is. Of the four (PC,GC,PS2,Xbox), which has the least main memory and disk capacity? Gamecube, of course. Sometimes its tough to port a game over to another system with a lot less main memory available. I read some articles about how N64 used to be a B**** to port to because it only had 4MB(!) of RAM. One example of these articles is found here.
I'm sure a game like GTA3 has nearly maxed out its memory requirements, making it difficult to port to a system with tighter constraints.
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