<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>The N64 section looks like this
An entire shelf of Ready to Rumble
An entire shelf of Conker's Bad Fur Day
An entire shelf of Pokemon Snap or whatever the latest one is called.
Some random Star Wars game
Tony Hawk
Some guy based off on cartoon, think it's WB, but could be Disney.
Some wrestling game.
There's probably some generic EA sports game in there somewhere.
I don't think I saw a single game there that was from somewhere that's not Nintendo/Rare/EA/Activision minus the obligatory Star Wars, Wrestling game, and cartoon ripoff games.
Why would you develop for Nintendo, as a 3rd party, if you can't even get your game to the shelves because 2/3rd of the shelf space is dominated by Nintendo and Rare, and the 1/3rd is for the other big hits like Tony Hawk?
Yes, Best Buy tends to have a relatively low selection of titles, but even then, if you go to the Playstation section or even the PS2 section there are far more diversification in the selection of titles. Yeah Nintendo say they rule the world and they got 126 games or whatever that sold over 1 million, but their arrogance is exactly why they're losing to the PSX. If your section of games looks like 2/3rd Nintendo/Rare games, then most 3rd party developer won't develop for you, since games that don't get on the shelves don't get sold.
I'm not saying the solution is make sucky games. Clearly at the SNES/NES era Nintendo was fine despite Nintendo was probably still the biggest seller, but something clearly went wrong in the N64 age. And if they don't do something about it, they'll get shut out on the 3rd party development once again, and lose again. Nintendo seems to think they don't need 3rd party support, and perhaps they don't need to if all that matters is which company is making the most money (and even then, N64 is hardly the source of their profit), but usually the system wins is not the system whose parent makes the most money, but the system with the most total sales.</div>
An entire shelf of Ready to Rumble
An entire shelf of Conker's Bad Fur Day
An entire shelf of Pokemon Snap or whatever the latest one is called.
Some random Star Wars game
Tony Hawk
Some guy based off on cartoon, think it's WB, but could be Disney.
Some wrestling game.
There's probably some generic EA sports game in there somewhere.
I don't think I saw a single game there that was from somewhere that's not Nintendo/Rare/EA/Activision minus the obligatory Star Wars, Wrestling game, and cartoon ripoff games.
Why would you develop for Nintendo, as a 3rd party, if you can't even get your game to the shelves because 2/3rd of the shelf space is dominated by Nintendo and Rare, and the 1/3rd is for the other big hits like Tony Hawk?
Yes, Best Buy tends to have a relatively low selection of titles, but even then, if you go to the Playstation section or even the PS2 section there are far more diversification in the selection of titles. Yeah Nintendo say they rule the world and they got 126 games or whatever that sold over 1 million, but their arrogance is exactly why they're losing to the PSX. If your section of games looks like 2/3rd Nintendo/Rare games, then most 3rd party developer won't develop for you, since games that don't get on the shelves don't get sold.
I'm not saying the solution is make sucky games. Clearly at the SNES/NES era Nintendo was fine despite Nintendo was probably still the biggest seller, but something clearly went wrong in the N64 age. And if they don't do something about it, they'll get shut out on the 3rd party development once again, and lose again. Nintendo seems to think they don't need 3rd party support, and perhaps they don't need to if all that matters is which company is making the most money (and even then, N64 is hardly the source of their profit), but usually the system wins is not the system whose parent makes the most money, but the system with the most total sales.</div>
