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"Digitiser OH NO!"

Did anyone read digitiser today and see the comments from Shigeru Miyamoto, saying that he dosen't beleive that the future of the Gamecube will lie in making lots of games. He also dosent want third party developers making games for the GC at the moment, maybe later in the Cube life they will start. AHhhhhhhhhhhhh please dont tell me there gonna turn the cube into another N64 mess up.

What Myiamoto said was that third party titles weren't important at the early stages.

Looking at the list of third party devellopers, only three were "must have" games.

One was Rogue Leader (which is second party not third party) and the other two were by Sega.

In the early stages, Nintendo are aiming to capture the hardcore gamer like us. We go for the serious quality from Nintendo, the second parties and the best companies like Sega.

The rest, the bulk of sports games, racers and clones are more important in later stages to attract all those casual gamers. That was what Myiamoto said.

And he is right.

what about acclaim with their games , retro studios !! just think what we would be missing out on !

That would be great we could have a game maybe every three months if were lucky.

So you'd be happy if therer was only ever 3 companies that made games for the Gamecube? I think not!

oh sorry about that! But to be honest as long as the gamecube has Nintendo and Rareware and possibly Sega working on games for it, then what else do we need? do you get my point?
slik ~_~

i think rare are second party , as i read somewhere that they are now part of nintendo , something like that.

anyway this won't happen, because aren't Rareware third party or something along those lines?
slik ?_?

course they wont , shigsy isn't the main leader at nintendo so he cant decide whether ninty will be having 3rd party developers or not , Mr Yamauchi will most likely get the support from 3rd party developers as he is the boss. that was probably shigsy's opinion on whether HE not the whole company want 3rd party games on the Gamecube. Also , isn't is quality over quantity , i looked at the release list for the GBA over on nintendo.com . it is flooded full with 3rd party games , or old ports of old games , while when you look at the GC relase list , it says the following :

Luigi's MansionTM November 18 (street date)
· Wave Race®: Blue Storm November 18 (street date)
· PikminTM November 19 (ship date)
· Super Smash Bros.TM Melee December 3 (ship date)
· Eternal DarknessTM December 3 (ship date)

the above are all first or second party games.

now it says the following underneath :

These Nintendo-developed hits will be joined by proven franchises and groundbreaking new games from among the world's best THIRD PARTY PUBLISHERS.
Those scheduled for release in North America this year include:

· All Star Baseball 2002 (Acclaim)
· Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (Acclaim)
· Extreme G3 (Acclaim)
· NFL Quarterback Club 2002 (Acclaim)
· Crazy Taxi (Acclaim)
· FIFA Soccer 2002 (Electronic Arts)
· Madden NFL 2002 (Electronic Arts)
· SSX Tricky (Electronics Arts)
· Star Wars® Rogue Squadron® II: Rogue LeaderTM (LucasArts)
· NFL Blitz (Midway)
· NHL Hitz (Midway)
· Super Monkey Ball (Sega)


so with this little bit of evidence what shigsy said there wasn't infact true but part of it was , as ninty from the looks of their release list above have chosen the games from only the best 3rd party developers , not your average jjoe bloggs developer , bringing out bog standard software. So yet again nintendo are sticking to their seal of quality and are only letting excellent games through.

Did anyone read digitiser today and see the comments from Shigeru Miyamoto, saying that he dosen't beleive that the future of the Gamecube will lie in making lots of games. He also dosent want third party developers making games for the GC at the moment, maybe later in the Cube life they will start. AHhhhhhhhhhhhh please dont tell me there gonna turn the cube into another N64 mess up.