MSN Money explores the importance of Nintendo first-party titles to the success of the DS and upcoming Wii. From the article: “DS is a game console that has become a mainstream success basically on the back of the software sold by the console provider. In Japan, Nintendo has sold more than 21 million units of DS games — the second-biggest DS software supplier has moved only 2 million units. Usually, console vendors have to grovel for the support of third-party game developers in order to gain strong sales of their game consoles, but Nintendo has the ability to sell 50 million units of its portable consoles on the back of its own game development. That’s an edge no company can match.”
Amazing.
Yes, it is amazing, but it is also something that put the thirdies behind. This is a problem for Nintendo: how to bring publishers to your platform if the games that sell are the ones that Nintendo makes? It is something Nintendo shall consider from now on…Best!!
Fabio:Not so true, because if you think about it, Nintendo provides all the proper SDK's with complete documentation "Capcom"(RE4) and if the companies put effort or need assistance optimizing their code to work better Nintendo offers it. It all basically comes down to how bad do they want it. Do they want an easy, cheap cashin or put some effort and solidify their design. I dont know about you but their is way too much competition for a company to be sloppy about their software efforts in this lucrative industry. Nintendo just has a quality standard that doesnt change.Rafael
True, yet it didn't work so well for Gamecube – so I'm still sceptical.