| menx64 said: Nintendo knows that too, they are not dumbs either, market saturation says hi, nintendo could probably have done wiifit3,4 & 5 but none of them were going to do the numbers of the original wiifit, and the same goes for most of their games... That´s probably the other reason why smash was still at $45- $49, mario kart was a $49, NSMB $49, they sell a lot over the time... Investors are not dumb either, the market is just reacting to the new consoles, 3ds is doing ok, the software lineup for this hollyday is stellar and it´ll take it to the roof of the charts with no problem, the wiiU is nintendo's new bet, and besides all the bad comments it has a great future ahead of it, as big as the wii? maybe, maybe not, nobody knows... for some additional reading, this is a little old, (but still) if you want to know who "owns" nintendo this could be interesting... http://seekingalpha.com/article/43310-who-is-buying-nintendo-stock |
Market saturation? The Wii Fit market is so underserved and desperate that Wii Fit Plus HAS, in fact, matched the sales of the original Wii Fit, or is very close. And the idea is not to do a bunch of straight sequels, but to explore the other possibilities of the new genre. Like doing DKC, Kirby, Wario and Yoshi on top of Mario, or doing Flash Focus, cookbook software, English training and Big Brain Academy on top of Brain Age.
Instead Nintendo is reverting to doing 3D Mario, 3D Kid Icarus, Ocarina of Time and Luigi's Mansion. These types of games were a strategy for low stock prices for Gamecube, and that's where Nintendo's stock is headed.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
