What if Nintendo focused on hardcore gaming?

[Exblackman]

thekitchensink said:

intenExblackman said:

FishyJoe said:

Has anyone who has criticized Nintendo for not vigorously pursuing the hardcore gaming audience stopped to think what would happen if they actually did that?

Maybe it would make certain fanboyss happier, but it would also further sub-divide the market creating less opportunity for the PS3 and 360. Is this what people really want? Three systems all competing for the same limited audience? That seems like a recipe for financial disaster.

True, but it wouldn't hurt them to buy some western developers to make more western friendly games.The best business plan is to attack both sides equally to futher improve profits and set your self up in the next generation as the market share winner in the blue ocean market and at a respectable position in the red ocean market as well.

 

 

Nintendo doesn't have the billions of excess cash that Sony and Microsoft do.  Yes, they've made a couple of billion on the Wii and DS, but that isn't money they can just toss around willy-nilly.  It's not like they've bought a ton of Japanese developers, either--the only one I can think of is Monolith Soft, and that's more of a controlling share than a buyout.

Two things I find wrong with your response, first alot of companies in japan that make second party games for nintendo  are partaially or owned buy nintendo.Brownie Brown-makers of Mother 3 ,alpha Dream- makers of Mario and Luigi,Noise makers of Custom Robo,NDCube-makers of F-zero maximum velocity,Hal Laboratory-makers of Smash Brothers and Kirby and others are companies eitherfully owned or partially owned by Ninitendo.

Second problem , this is just probably a misunderstanding between us but you don't need billions to buy controlling shares in small companies, I say for some companies 100 million would be enough to buy 50-60%  of shares of most small companies.Nintendo only owns two western based developers companies , adding one or two more wouldn't cost more than 300 million.