| NFreak said: Low software sales for third party developers? Why is that looked at so negatively? Nintendo has always had a large share of software sales and just because Nintendo is winning the gen doesn't mean that this has to change. Things are just skewed so high up for Nintendo that now, even with the low market share that third party devs have, they still make more sales going with the Wii over the 360 or the PS3. This puts Nintendo in an amazing situation. Being a Nintendo fan, I would have to say that 360 fanboys and PS3 fanboys are jealous of this fact, as now we have Nintendo outselling the 360 and PS3 COMBINED, while simultaneously selling almost all of the software for the console. Nintendo is making so much bank right now compared to Sony and Microsoft. I don't see the bad side? Nor do I see any change in how Nintendo usually performs. |
Sales and profit wise the situation gives a lot of advantages to Nintendo, but there is a drawback: it gives Nintendo more than to other console manufacturers, the honour and burden to support its own platform, Sony and MS can sometimes rest and sometimes even enjoy boosts from 3rd parties' actions, like FFXIII, MW2, MGS4, etc, Nintendo OTOH must almost always give 100% to gather its extra share, when Nintendo slows down, 3rd parties aren't strong enough to keep the momentum. It's natural, though, money doesn't fall from sky, even when at a first glance it could look so. But another good thing for Nintendo is that even when Wii isn't at its best competitors manage to surpass it only if they are running at full steam, like PS3 after its price cut and Slim release and before Wii's cut. So a "curse" quite light and easy to bear...
