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oniyide on 07 September 2013
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
oniyide said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

^^

@bolded: this. That's why Ninty should stick to its usual business model and leave Sony's and MS' ones to them: unless they commit horrible mistakes, each model works well for each one of them, but it doesn't really work for the others. BTW Ninty's model enjoys the bigger profit margin, but MS and Sony know that copying it wouldn't work as well for them, to approach Ninty's profit margin their only way is to refine their own models to improve efficiency and avoid wastes, and to boost 1st party development, but not up to Ninty level, otherwise they'd scare 3st parties away.


what do you mean up to Ninty level? Because i would argue that SOny has actually boosted 1st party development a lot in the past few years. Hell i would argue that PS3 had just as much 1st party games as Wii, it probably has more since SOny is still supporting PS3 with games while preparing for 4 and doing somethings(KZ:M,Tearaway) for Vita. While Ninty dropped WIi pretty much right after Skyward Sword

I mean same level when supporting the console full steam and the same level of measures taken to sell tens million copies of its strongest games, including heavy bundling, like Ninty did, 7 Ninty games sold more than 20M copies on Wii, many of them were heavily bundled (but they sold also standalone copies, some fewer, some others more), we can say Ninty "militarily" occupies the Top 10 on its systems. It works for Ninty, but it would be a disaster for Sony and MS.

Just compare them:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=&platform=Wii&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=&platform=PS3&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

I disagree, Wii is the exception and not the rule IMHO. How much of Ninty's games were really heavily bundled? WiiSports, Resort, NSMBWii?(not sure about that one) and MKart which was bundled long after it was already doing great. Thats not really that much different than PS3 bundles which Sony did do a few for their own games. GT5, Uncharted1?2,3, God of War, there was the Move bundle that came with Sports Champions, Infamous had a bundle. little big planet. So you cant say that Sony doesnt do it, hell they probably do it more.

Not sure what sales prove. Two different products selling to two different demographs, One blue ocean one red, one cheap one wasnt, and its Nintendo they have the advantage of being around for much longer. Wii sold more so it sells more games. Doesnt mean that Sony didnt support it full steam, hell considering that Ninty pretty dropped Wii sometime ago i would say that they didnt support Wii full steam.