Nintendo feeling Keving Butler's (and maybe Move's too) pressure? :-P

[Cheebee]

RolStoppable said:

Cheebee said:

andremop said:
It's strange... sometimes I wonder what would happen If nintendo REALLY tries to compete for marketshare and software sales like the others.

For example... price cuts every year. Or cheaper games, greatest hits series (Mario sold 14,000,000 copies in 6 months at full price). Or buying third party games. Etc...

Nintendo is not worried about anything, I guess. They almost look like they have no competition.

Yeah... Nintendo tried that, with the N64 and GameCube. Look where it got them. Then with Wii, they decided it was enough, and to play by their own set of rules, and to not fight their competitors directly with the same kind of software and strategies. I'd say they made a smart decision.

You forgot to mention the SNES. People usually don't see it as a mistake from Nintendo because it still won its generation, but the SNES is actually the beginning of Nintendo's fall from grace.

Well, I thought about mentioning the SNES, but decided not to, because it was such an important console for Nintendo, game-wise. It's where a lot of their IPs first appeared (F-Zero, Mario Kart and Starfox to name a few), and a lot of their already established franchises got games that defined their respective series or genres (Super Metroid, Zelda ALTTP, the DK Country games...). True, sales-wise, SNES did worse than the NES did, but the post I replied to was about competing for marketshare and software sales, and in that respect, SNES dominated its competitors.

It was only with the N64 that Nintendo began 'losing' to its competitors (mainly PS1), in both SW sales and marketshare. Before that, they were still on top. Whether by a larger or smaller amount than with NES is irrelevant to the discussion.