| jardesonbarbosa said: Is it? What about the money they make from hardware? And do you all seriously think they would release the same quality content if they were making games to play everywhere? The reason they are so good is because they are committed to only one (or two) devices. And they make those games to sell those devices. If they don't have devices to sell, they will only produce crap like the new Metroid or the new Paper Mario. |
The flaw in your thought is that you're assuming those people don't want a console. Most homes have a console of some type. So most Pokemon Go consumers are perfectly OK with spending a few hundred bucks on a console, and they're OK with $70 games. What Nintendo needs to do is get people to choose the Nintendo console as their home box of choice. Pokemon Go can't do this alone, of course, but it could very much be used to increase the value of a Nintendo system. Nintendo needs to have a decent machine that can offer generally the same experience as XBox and Playstation. Then use their software to attract consumers. If a husband and wife are buying a system and both allow him to play COD, but only one offeres "Pokemon Home" where she can do something really awsome with those Pokemon she collects in the wild, the Nintendo option becomes superior. Add in additional, excellent titles like Zelda and there's no reason Nintendo couldn't have a thriving casual business on mobile and thriving core business on their proprietary hardware.
