DivinePaladin said:
If you're talking just exclusives, it's actually not too uncommon, unless by AAA you mean insanely bloated budget. Even 2016 has five or six big 3DS games and 2015 had four big Wii U exclusives. Actually when I look at it now, the last three years have been fairly kind to Wii U owners in terms of exclusives.
If you mean AAA as in very high bloated budgets and not simply high-caliber releases, the Wii U might have had like three of those total.
That's not to say you don't have a point. Clearly a good amount of the reason Nintendo games sell is because this gen that's all the system has had. Well, not counting the 3DS. Really, your argument solely applies only specifically to big third party games coming multiplat to Nintendo home consoles. But Nintendo owners generally double down on another console specifically because they WANT the Nintendo games, so you can't really just chalk it up to there not being other games to buy.
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I see your point. I'm not talking about just exclusives tho. And by AAA games I am not talking about games with bloated budgets. Tho I don't even know what that means. If a game has a Budget of $100M which includes marketing that's usually cause such a game is expected to push 10-20M in sales. Anyways, back to my point.
Let's just take this year alone for instance. (feel free to use any Nintendo year for comparison)
Bloodborne and Dark souls 3. Two very similar AAA games released in the same year.
COD and BF. Two very similarAAA games released again in the same year.
Then we have other games like Hitman, Uncharted, FF15, Persona, Mirrors Edge, Far cry primal, Battleborn, Overwatch......etc. All AAA games. all coming in the same year. And these are just the AAA games. So I'm.not even counting AA games like The witness and No mans Sky.
Now if you own a Nintendo console (not handheld) then you are more than likely in for it for the exclusives. You don't even have a choice there beimg that none of the games I mentioned above are going to be on it.
So if Nintendo releases 3-4 AA/AAA games in a year, unless you don't want to use your console that's pretty much all you have to choose from as far as buying a game goes. I domt think there is anything wrong with that, I mean it works for those into it right? But my point is, there simply aren't that many options with a Nintendo console to choose from. So the little they have tends to sell very well.
