Entwickler lassen den Cube doch nicht fallen?
Nintendo Doomed?
Hey IGN,
With all this semi-recent news of third-parties dropping their support of Nintendo's console, do you think this will have an impact on their support with the next generation of consoles? I'm worried that developers have more or less given up on Nintendo in a way, and now won't support the GameCube 2 like they would the PS3 or Xbox 2. From what I've heard, these poor sales have pretty much given Nintendo a black eye as far as third-party support goes. Do you think this will carry over at all into the next generation?
Matt responds: I don't think so. Nintendo still has the time and money to influence or change the perceptions of development studios and publishers, if it so chooses -- and here's hoping it does. But aside from that, the current situation is not quite as bleak as you might think it is. While some publishers have cut GameCube projects in the past, ever since the console's price drop to $99 many are beginning to take a more enthusiastic approach to GCN development. A developer told me last week, in fact, that while that the publishers it was working with had previously canned all of their GameCube SKUs, several of them are now back on the plate. It even said it's working on one GameCube project for 2005. So, you know, that if nothing else is a little encouraging.
Quelle: IGN
