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This is the ultimate showdown, of analyst destiny...
First Mitchell enters the ring, loudly proclaiming that Nintendo's first party success hurts third party publishers. Then The Pachtman jumped into the ring and smacked Mitchell about with his Incomplete Analysis power move...but Michael Pachter is only one man. Then BAM! In comes IDC analyst Billy Pidgeon, taking Mitchell from behind with a metal folding chair! He's down! He is down!
"With N64 and GameCube, Nintendo suffered from a lack of third-party support and most of the third party titles that were published on Nintendo's platforms were slapped together ports of games for other systems...Now, however, things have changed: "That publishers are eager to seize the opportunities is obvious from the strong third-party support and development investment in Nintendo's platform."Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz he pretty much discounts Mitchell's statements as being based off of the old days when Sega and Nintendo manufactured the cartridges themselves, making 3rd party publishers feel like they were getting shorted.
Taken by themselves, analytics like these are pretty dry, but when you put them all together you can really see what a vicious bunch these guys are. One of them says something, and then guys crawl out of the woodwork to tell him he's wrong. Come to think of it, they're like our commentors! We're not all that different after all.
Wii offers new challenge for third parties, says analyst [GamesIndustry.biz]
