I hate d1ck head developers...

Well all i know is that all the consoles of this generation are gonna be difficult to develop for at first

i was wacthin TechTV yesterday and some CEO of a game company was there commenting on the development process for each console and he said that they were all about the same - they each had something that a developer had to overcome

Originally posted by Gohan

This is a business you know. Do you think that a company is going to support a console even if it does not make sense for them financially? Nope. Would you? Take for example, Square. They could have easily just made FFVII for the N64. But then it would not have been the game that so many people love. Another company would have stepped up and made a kick-ass RPG on the PSX and then they would be the RPG king now. You have to remember that companies always look out for self first.

We may never know but if Square had stuck w/ Nintendo, we may be in a different situation.

Plus, N64 had the best launch ever, at the time. Imagine what it would have done for Nintendo w/ massive 3rd party support.

So exactly why was it not financially reasonable to support Nintendo?

Originally posted by Ashford
So exactly why was it not financially reasonable to support Nintendo?

If paying for expensive carts and huge licensing fees costs more than burning regular PSX disks and Sony\'s minimal licensing fees then for Square it could have been a more financially reasonable decision. IMO, They went with PSX because of the CD format. They just couldn\'t do what they wanted to do on the N64 cart format.

I was not in the board-room when they made the decision, so It could have very well been financially responsible for them to support the N64. I was just using them as an example.

As far as games selling, Nintendo had an INCREDIBLE launch but as far as selection........the N64 launch lineup sucked.

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• It takes more time and cost to develop for the PS2. There is no denying this fact. Smaller developers can not dedicate so much time and money to a game that may not sell.
• The PS2 is extremely complicated to develop for. The learning curve will eventually get easier, but at this time, once again, smaller developers just can\'t dedicate all their time and money to R&D .
• Square could not support Nintendo with the cartridge format. Not when Sony had a system with the cd-format and easy development. They done the safest and most logical thing, they moved FF7 over to the PSone. There was also plenty of other third parties put out with the catridge format because of price and other things.
• It is alot easier for companies like EA that just bring out a yearly update and have plenty of money and programmers to spare. The same applies to Konami, as they have plenty of cash, research and development, and talented programmers to spare for one project. Then you have companies like 3DO.....

Forgot about the whole expensive cartridge thing. Sorry. :nut: