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Eddie_Raja on 29 July 2015

So I was just talking about what would make the NX succeed, and besides a sub $200 price, I would say GAMES GAMES GAMES!  I mean look what they could do:

Year 1:

-Super Mario

-Metroid

-Paper Mario

-Donkey Kong

-Pikmin

 

Year 2:

-Yoshi

-Kirby

-Mario Kart

-Zelda

-Monster Hunter (Ik not 1st Party)

 

Year 3:

-Star Fox

-Mario Party

-F-Zero

-Battalion Wars

-Splatoon

^^^And this doesn't  even include NEW IP's - which we could expect at least a few.  If Nintendo doesn't have enough people/studios to do this then they just flat out need to hire more people.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

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Nautilus on 29 July 2015

Ita not like they are not trying.They are supporting 2 systems, developing another AND making games for it.So actually its impressive Nintendo is even msnaging making the number of games it makes.And buying/making new studios cost money, so its not a matter of just go buying, it needs to check if its viable money-wise, and needs to find talents...



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FloatingWaffles on 29 July 2015
Eddie_Raja said:

So I was just talking about what would make the NX succeed, and besides a sub $200 price, I would say GAMES GAMES GAMES!  I mean look what they could do:

@ bolded: Once again i'm really glad anybody that actually thinks this doesn't work for Nintendo. 

Also I think Nintendo should just either create more studios or acquire studios to increase their game output.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 29 July 2015

The really don't have enough people at all...

Nintendo Employees: >3000

EA Employees: 9370

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_development_teams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts

And Nintendo is a hardware company... So yea... The fact that they can even release this many games is amazing



                  

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Eddie_Raja on 29 July 2015
Nautilus said:
Ita not like they are not trying.They are supporting 2 systems, developing another AND making games for it.So actually its impressive Nintendo is even msnaging making the number of games it makes.And buying/making new studios cost money, so its not a matter of just go buying, it needs to check if its viable money-wise, and needs to find talents...


Well it is very clear that they should only have one system.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

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Platina on 29 July 2015

You can't just make more games by just wanting to.. they don't have enough people. But tbh, I think they are making enough games, but the reason for droughts is the lack of 3rd party



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gabzjmm23 on 29 July 2015

if Nintendo has a 10000 employee and 70% of it is allocated to game development then they can produce enough IPs based on your year 1-3. But they aren't big enough. And $200 or less home console pricing won't be good for Nintendo.



Eddie_Raja on 29 July 2015
gabzjmm23 said:
if Nintendo has a 10000 employee and 70% of it is allocated to game development then they can produce enough IPs based on your year 1-3. But they aren't big enough. And $200 or less home console pricing won't be good for Nintendo.


Then they can kiss another gen goodbye if they continue with their same business model.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

Ultrashroomz on 29 July 2015

They're going as fast as they humanly can.

The reason why this is a relevant issue is due to game droughts, and especially due to a lack of third party support on Wii U.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

JWeinCom on 29 July 2015

Cause making games is difficult and expensive and entails financial risk?