Quote Originally Posted by nirojan View Post
Bravely Default would still exists without Nintendo. Square still would have made that game. Bayonetta 2 & Ninja Gaiden 2 would not exist without Nintendo and Microsoft, but because those companies don't control the IP, they really don't have any control over future ports (unless there are specific contract stipulations; which companies can get around like how TECMO changed just enough from NG2 and renamed it Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2).
That's true, but the point that funding and publishing doesn't make it yours is still valid for all the games.

Just a heads up, Persona 5 is coming to PS3.
Well, there goes my reason to buy a PS4. Four hundred dollars saved, I guess.

MS and Sony showed a tonne of 3rd party titles. They DO NOT HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS NINTENDO. Nintendo little to no 3rd party support. So even "multi-platform" games, probably won't come out for the Wii U (with the rare WB/ubi game being the exceptions). Sony and MS can rest on the laurels of the 3rd party publishers to fill-in gaps of their release schedules. NINTENDO CAN'T! The Wii U has had some major game droughts (5 months in the 2012-2013 period was the longest I think). Nitty needs to step it up big time.
Ok, that part was not intended as a defense of Nintendo. We all know that they're having third-party support problems.

My question remains: How many of Sony and Microsoft's products were first-party? I have no idea, to be honest.