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ChromaticAngel posted...

When Nintendo saw the 64 and GameCube got f***all for third party support, they started making consoles that catered exclusively to themselves

I actually think that was good for Nintendo and the reason I doubt Sony and Microsoft will be making consoles much longer. Sony has very few game studios, Microsoft essentially makes nothing. They don't make games. Because they don't make games, they don't have real fans and they don't have brand loyalty or a guaranteed user-base or anything like that. It also means they are completely dependent on third parties to survive, so they have to constantly battle each other for third party exclusives and timed exclusives and bull shit like that, making deals to make their console more appealing and so on. It's fucking stupid to be so dependent on other companies that literally don't give a shit about you, to stay alive.

Nintendo has been constantly building dev teams and acquiring them. At some point they will be pumping out enough games to be completely self sustaining, you guys realize that right?

And with the resurrection of PC gaming through steam, the appeal of third party games is dwindling.

Games like Overwatch, the biggest 3rd party game in years... no one wants to play that on a ps4, switch or Xbox one.