Nintendo's business model is flawed

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RolStoppable said:

A lot of the criticism towards Nintendo this generation is ill-founded, often times because the people who complain have no reason to say those things other than the fact that they just don't like Nintendo. That obviously doesn't hold true for me, because I am the biggest Nintendo fan on this website right after The Ghost Of RubangB.

Now where does Nintendo go wrong? It's obviously in regards to their third party support. Many of those games (like Little King's Story) don't sell as much as they deserve, because Nintendo's first party titles get in the way.

They simply have a too high hour/$ ratio. You buy a game like Mario Kart Wii and can play it for weeks if not months without getting bored. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will take most players at least 30 hours to finish just for the main quest and the amounts of hours people put into DS games like Pokémon are insane. You don't feel the need to go out and buy a third party game as a filler until the next first party game is released (the sole purpose why third party titles exist in the first place), because your last Nintendo game lasts you so long. There's just no time to play another game and the result is that third party sales are for the most part less than stellar, to put it nicely.

Microsoft and Sony have a superior business model because they keep the campaigns of their $60 games usually below 10 hours of playtime in order to fuel more sales of third party titles. They not only get more money per title, they can also sell far more software that way while gamers still end up with the same amount of playtime as on a Nintendo system.

Nintendo is leaving a lot of money on the table by offering so much bang for our buck. Until they change their business practices to get more in line with the industry standard, analysts will be ultimately right: Nintendo is doomed.

So, in conclusion. The whole purpose of this thread is to say that Nintendo gives you more bang for your bucks than Sony/MS? It's amazing how you keep managing to get away with these kinds of threads. They used to be funny but now they are just lazy.