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Hybrid NX means 3rd Party Support Will Improve

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It's not as consistent as I thought it would be but making a hybrid console will have significance that will attract 3rd party support for those who wanted to game on a HDTV.


Notable DS Exclusives Compared to the Wii

Activision​
007: Blood Stone

Capcom​
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!

Destination Software, Inc.​
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1 vs. 100

Konami​
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Namco Bandai​
Blue Dragon Plus
Blue Dragon Awakened Shadow
Ni no Kuni

Square Enix​
Blood of Bahamut
The World Ends with You
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

THQ​
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires: Mythologies

Ubisoft​
Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles

Interesting 3DS Exclusives Compared to the Wii U

Atlus​
Shin Megami Tensei IV


Capcom​
E.X. Troopers
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Super Street Fighter IV


Electronic Arts​
FIFA 15

Konami​
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater


Square Enix​
Bravely Default
Bravely Second: End Layer


Considering how much support the vita got initially in spite of unimpressive launch sales should give everyone optimism that support will at least be good at first.
 
Please don't get your hopes up for 3rd party on Nintendo platforms.

This is coming from someone who was a Nintendo fanboy during the Gamecube era.
 
You have done a horrible job in defending your premise.


But yes, if you consolidate the support gotten from Wii U + 3DS, that library would have more exclusives and support which is why they are probably doing it.
 
The usual devs like Atlus and Koei and Namco and Capcom and even Square Enix (to an extent) will prolly be there. I'm more concerned about CDPR and Rockstar jumping on board....
 
Tom Smykowski: It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.

Michael Bolton: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.

Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
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Maybe.
 
NinjaCoachZ said:
Didn't you just make this thread last night? I'm getting deja vu.
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They did indeed.

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Its going to get amazing support in Japan

I wouldnt be surprised to see tons of western support from Indie, Mobile and High Software volume AAA devs like EA/Ubisoft
 
It'd mean we get the same but they're all on the same platform.

Even then the amount that develop for the platform is entirely up to sales so that's something we won't know at all until a later date.
 
This list is super incomplete and is missing a lot of notable titles... I don't think you're selling the DS exclusives very well here. I agree with the notion that third party content will improve on the Japanese side as it's typically been really great on Nintendo portables
 
It means probably 3DS-like Japanese backing with Wii U-like indies/casual backing. So yes an improvement versus 3DS or Wii U individually but sort of the same as both combined.
 
They really should sort out an fps and a soccer game from third parties. Showing local multiplayer on the go for CoD and FIFA (or at least clones) would be great for appealing to twenty something players.
 
I don't think there's any guarantee third parties will get on board. I also don't really understand the logic outlined in the OP.

But I will say this:

Since Nintendo will be able to better support their own system (since half of their games won't be on a second system), this means the NX may get off to a stronger start. And if the NX gets off to a stronger start, more third parties will be able to justify making games for it.
 
I'm not seeing how that is supposed to improve with just a list of games. There's not even an argument being made. The only argument to be made with the NX right now with the current rumors is that Nintendo's first party output will be focused on a single platform so they avoid droughts since 3rd parties don't make games for their home consoles all that often.
 
Doubtful, parity with the other consoles so ports are easy and install base brings third party support. A hybrid makes the first one more difficult and install base, who knows? But the Wii U's was tiny and the dedicating gaming mobile device audience continues to shrink so I am doubtful.
 
Man, I'm sorry, but I don't get what the list in the OP is supposed to mean. Both DS and 3DS had far more third-party games than that from a variety of companies. Things like Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright are absent. Even the companies listed there have games missing (Atlus did faaaaaar more on 3DS than SMTIV).

I agree with the premise that Japanese 3DS third-parties will likely come to NX, but that list doesn't do much in elaborating that point.

ElectricBlanketFire said:
They did indeed.

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Oh man.
 
Galang said:
This list is super incomplete and is missing a lot of notable titles... I don't think you're selling the DS exclusives very well here. I agree with the notion that third party content will improve on the Japanese side as it's typically been really great on Nintendo portables
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I'm not going to list everything obviously.


This thread is partially to raise awareness for those that there were better 3rd party games on the handhelds because they don't pay attention to it.
 
I don't even much care about 3rd party support anymore. A system that had all 3ds and Wii u games would be a system with an amazingly robust library.
 
The NX being Hybrid means nothing for 3rd party support.

3rd party support needs one of the following things to happen.

1) It will be very easy (meaning cheap) to develop for which will drive 3rd party support.

2) Either the system will sell well, which will drive 3rd party support, despite being more "complicated" (meaning more expensive) to support

3) Both #1 and #2
 
I mean, one would think it'll get somewhere in the neighborhood of the support the 3DS got, at least.

But honestly, it will depend on a lot of factors. There are so many unknowns with this platform. If it does get third party support, will those games be mostly limited to the scope of a typical portable game? Will its hardware architecture lend itself to more original development like 3DS has received, or will third parties be tempted to simply dump their existing mobile projects onto it? What kind of licensed engines will it support?

I keep hopingthat as each of their consoles fades worse than the last (aside from the wave-catching Wii anomoly), Nintendo will realize that people go where the most games are. That's what made the NES and SNES such a success, which they even seem to understand to some extent based on the selections made for the NES Classic Edition.

And yet, very few third parties are talking about this thing. Granted, even if they have dev kits they probably aren't allowed to say much. But even so, third parties tend to drop hints when they've got something in the works.
 
If anything its going to get worse. Unless there is a disc drive in the dock for the NX or its cartridges are at least 64GB and as cheap to make as discs 3rd parties aren't going to want to deal with this restrictions.
 
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