DanneSandin on 05 December 2012
| HappySqurriel said: It is really too early to read much into the Wii U sales, and until we see what Nintendo is releasing in 2013 I think it is difficult to say that they abandoned the "casual gamer" ... At the same time, the 3DS is selling very well in general and most of the "casual" games Nintendo released for the Nintendo DS have seen sequels for the 3DS ... With that said, I think Nintendo is trying to take advantage of their year lead, get third party publishers to release decent "core" titles for the Wii U, and then use the sales of those titles to argue for future development before publishers move all their development teams to next generation projects. I could be wrong but I suspect that it is easier to argue for a good version of the next Call of Duty game if it sells more than 500,000 units on a new system and the developers who produce the title haven't completely re-tooled for PS4/XBox 720 development. |
As far as I understand things, those casual titles on the 3DS isn't quite selling as well as they did on DS though...? This, if anything, should show that casuals moved on, and that Nintendo should act accordingly and not spending too much time, effort and money on similar titles. But that doesn't mean they should abondon casuals all together.
And I can't do anything but agree with your thinking about how Nintendo could/should gather 3rd party support. Being able to say that "This title sold X many units" to prove that it's not only Nintendo titles selling on Nintendo consoles.
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