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pokoko on 11 August 2018
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
pokoko said:

Do more Nintendo consoles get sold because of their games or because of their gimmicks?  We've seen this before.  Vanilla Nintendo consoles without third-party support don't make it on the strength of their games alone, either.  If Sony lost third-party support then they'd have to change their strategy, same as Nintendo did.  Likewise, a Nintendo with full third-party support would gradually see sales for some first-party games begin to ebb, especially if they kept to their strategy of no price drops.  You can't compare peaches to cats 1:1 and expect to pull anything meaningful from it.

Consoles get sold because of quality games.  I would think someone would learn this just by being on the VGC forum for a while.

You'd also think that someone on VGC would be aware of history.  After third-party support left Nintendo, their history has been extremely up and down.  Because their games have been great one gen and then completely suck the next?  That's unlikely.  The Nintendo vanilla boxes have done poorly while the products with the biggest tilts away from traditional home gaming consoles have done much better.  Do you think that's a coincidence?  The Switch and Wii are examples of the console form factor being every bit as important as games when it comes to brand success.