JediSage said:I agree with Jay. Nintendo is in deep when the big picture/long run are considered. They've alienated a shit load of third-party developers for too long...devs that won't necessarily come running back when Nintendo plays catch up with what will undoubtedly be another under-powered console under the auspices of "quality" over power.
When has this changed? That's a serious question. Nintendo has always been about quality over power. Always, always, always. Even back to the NES and Super NES. Nintendo may have alienated some people (I'll take your word for it), but Sony has made things just as hard in the opposite direction. The PS3 is a pain in the ass to program for. Yes, it's very powerful. But all that power is useless if you can't easily make a game for it.
It's also possible that Nintendo will come up with a way to make all those titles easily "upgraded" to HD. HD seems to be the real crux of the argument right now anyway. The Wii doesn't do HD and for the "hardcore gamers" that's a must have. Sorry, I just don't buy it. A visually stunning game is nice to look at for a while, but if it doesn't have good gameplay, it won't last 5 minutes.
Oblivion might be great to look at, but the retarded beginning of beating up giant rats with a sword kind of turned me off. It really shouldn't take more than one stab to kill a rat.
So when did Nintendo's attitutde of quality over power change?
What's amazing to me is how developers have abandoned PC gaming en mass in the last year or so. EA Sports has announced that it's not porting Madden any more, which really blows. And they blame it all on piracy. It really irks me because the current consoles and the last gen wouldn't have been shit if they didn't bastardize pc features like online play and anything even approaching pc graphics.
You answered your own statement. It's due to piracy (or so they say). It's much more difficult and time consuming to pirate console games than it is PC games. There's still a fairly large market of PC games though. I wouldn't really consider anything EA does as having a huge impact on PC games though. EA is pretty much hated throughout the gaming world so as long as there's other publishers besides them, PC games will be fine.