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Microsoft and Sony are Closer to Going Third-Party than Nintendo – Lets get the Facts Straight

Playeressence's Furious Francis cross examines Michael Pachter and Cliff Bleszinski's claims that Nintendo will go third party in the future, just how well did the PS3 and Xbox 360 do financially?

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LackTrue4K4076d ago

Nintendo is just upset that no 3rd party developers are taking them Seriously with there Wii U!!!
Lol.....

Theyellowflash304076d ago

Since when has Nintendo Needed third parties? Nintendo needs to get there first party games out to sell units.

AnotherProGamer4076d ago

They always needed third party like the reason PS2 sold more than the gamecube was because of the huge PS2 library

Theyellowflash304076d ago

Sorry, I meant to say Nintendo needs first party software now. Just like the 3DS did when everybody said that system was doomed. Nintendo is getting some good third party games in March with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Need for Speed Most Wanted, and The Amazing Spider Man.

Roper3164076d ago

they need to get their 1st party to make more the just Mario, Zelda & Mario spinoffs. They need their 1st party to make some games aimed at just a adult gamer along with the all ages games. jmho

phntom4076d ago

@Theyellowflash30

You mean "Port Hunter 3", "Port Speed Most Wanted" and "The Amazing Spider Port". C'mon dude, MHTri is a good game but there are so many ports of it, that I doubt it will sell a lot on WiiU. NFS and ASM are didn't even sold well on PS3 and Xbox, what makes you think they will sell on WiiU?

Merrill4075d ago

Nintendo was at their best/strongest with all out 3rd party support. The Super Nintendo days were their best, by far... In my opinion, of course.

user39158004075d ago (Edited 4075d ago )

All consoles need third party games, we buy consoles to play games on them and the more you have the better.

Francis might be mad due to comment posted, but the truth is they are right, wiiu its doing awfully, even Nintendo drop the forecast, shares went down, they reconfigure wiiu business with handheld and 100s has been let go from their positions.

Do anyone need more sign that nintendos wiiu its in trouble? Even Nintendo president admited and said we are not doing as we expected and the reason we low down production.

BEST NNTENDO CAN DO ITS KILL THE CONSOLE ALREADY AND EITHER come up with a console to challenge next gen or kill the wiiu and keep the handheld business. Just stay handheld and stocks goes back up because its your healthiest market, and go third party to the other 2 console.

I dont see any other way to place it, a little too late. Just make a new console with wii and wiiu compatability to satisfy does that bought games for it and just simply make the new console a beast.

Call the new console WII 2 Super WII Beast.

Larry L4075d ago

I know this will be an unpopular view, but I personally always wished (well....since I've moved on from being a Nintendo gamer, SNES was the last Ninty console I owned and loved) that Nintendo would actually go 3rd party themselves like Sega. Sega got forced into it pretty much, and imo they don't heve enough great IPs to be a HUGE 3rd party dev. But Nintendo could actually CHOOSE to be 3rd party, and their IPs are good enough where I think they could actually make MORE money putting those IPs on other (better) hardware.

I have no interest in going back to Nintendo, at least not in the foreseeable future. Their new iterations of their classic IPs don't do it for me. But they could get their fill of my money by releasing Nintendo Classics on PlayStation. I know it will never happen, but if I got my wish I'd be able to play the original Marios, Punch-Out!!, A Link to the Past and so on, on a console I actually own....Vita would be IDEAL. Judging by how much I enjoy MegaMan 1-3 on Vita, all those game would be better than ever.

Like I said, I know it will never happen (unless Wii U hurts Nintendo even more than I think it will), but realistically, it's the only way Nintendo would ever make money off this old-school gamer again.

Qrphe4075d ago

They needed them during the N64 and GC days. The lack of them was the reason they took a different approach with the Wii in the first place.

Mounce4075d ago

Well I'm still hoping that there's a day that the Nintendo fanbase realizes that all Nintendo has been doing with their software lineup, is milking Mario games 5x harder while pumping out the same IP over and over and over and I re-ask this over and over, what was the last IP Nintendo themselves made, my last recollection is Pikmen(Originally on Gamecube...). What new franchises had Sony made or Microsoft made this generation? or the last? fucking TONS.

Nintendo takes 'Risks' only by handing out their IP's to other studios to try to spice up their IP's in ways that they themselves cannot do without fearing that the milking of nostalgias' tits will infact go dry....hence why Metroid Prime happened and thankfully did well. The second attempt didn't seem to be met well though with Metroid: Other M. Mario games are no longer being passed around and Zelda, ever since Mario Hotel and many other disasters, or SAYYY....Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon on CD-i -_-...

"Lets get the facts straight?" rofl.

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3-4-54075d ago

It would cost Nintendo money to Drop the Wii U and stop producing consoles more than it would save, given what they have invested in research and the actual manufacturing.

Moonman4076d ago

Nintendo has Watch Dogs coming and hopefully GTA V. They sell more first party than anyone! 3DS is already over 30 million sold even before Pokemon X and Y..lol. They have over 10 billion in the bank!

silly fanboys.....

2pacalypsenow4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

IF GTA V is current gen it won be on the wii U why waste time and $ in development when everyone will be playing it on Xbox 360/Ps3 and maybe Pc/Ps4 /Next Xbox

DarkBlood4076d ago

in that case why waste time making it for ps4 and next xbox when its just about the same amount of effort to put it on the wiiu?

that is why you fail :P

HammadTheBeast4075d ago

They won't put the effort in yet for a PC version cause they're so busy with PS3/Xbox 360, what makes you think that they've even thought of other consoles?

HarryMasonHerpderp4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

This guy just seems like he's mad about the comments by Cliff when he shouldn't be because Cliff has been talking crap for a while now. Just ignore him.
I'm pretty sure Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will be making hardware for many years to come.

PeaSFor4075d ago

to resume, the guy who did this blog is simply butthurted.

dee-ecks4076d ago

Nintendo will go 3rd party looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooong before Sony does.

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Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

Profchaos8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

exputers4h ago

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

z2g1h ago

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

phoenixwing39m ago

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

H91h ago

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

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Microsoft Seemingly Closes Bethesda France

As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people

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Hereandthere16h ago

Microsoft should have left them stay 3rd party

GamerRN13h ago

If they are let go, they can be whatever they want. They ARE 3rd party now... 🤦

Barlos10h ago

Yeah, they're also jobless.

GamerRN4h ago

They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".

peppeaccardo5h ago

"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)

ChasterMies1h ago

I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.

PassNextquestion15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much

Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region

blacktiger13h ago

that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.

Profchaos15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.

I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games

Tacoboto15h ago

It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.

Profchaos14h ago

Possibly guven all the leaks we know the Xbox brand is really struggling in the region.

Yi-Long11h ago

Well, if your consoles and games are barely found in any stores any more, of course you're gonna struggle finding consumers ...

XiNatsuDragnel14h ago

Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo

Profchaos12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers

TheColbertinator13h ago

The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg16h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos16h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola11h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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