Is Nintendo focusing to much on Japan?

[Joelcool7]

Roma said:
do you regret making some of your threads after making them?

Yes some of them, I create a lot of threads and am bound to make mistakes from time to time. Do I regret making this thread, no I don't. Rol saying I needed to research the subject and pointing out that the conference took place right prior to TGS, what honestly does he believe I was not aware of that? No shit I am aware of it!

Me quoting Rol was not because I think he is a good solid source for information. I quoted Rol saying Nintendo was paying Capcom off because in another thread a large amount of users supported that idea and Rol was the one who everyone will actually know. Now with a little research we see that Nintendo always tells us when they pay for exclusive content. Nintendo and Capcom have a great partnership and honestly there is no reason other then rumors to believe a pay off was made. People tell me not to say things without doing research, but what research proves that MH4 was bought by Nintendo? The facts really lead the other way.

In fact a lot of the media have very different reasons for MH4 being exclusive to 3DS. Such as lower dev costs, a great relationship with Nintendo. Publishing deals outside Japan.

But enough about my lack of research, to the comments people are making about UbiSoft.

Rol states UbiSoft made money on Quantity and not quality. A quick look over their charts and I disagree. They made their money by targetting girl gamers and  mothers. Look at their line-up Imagine and the Petz series dominate the DS sales wise, look at the highest selling title Imagine:Babyz 2.82 million copies sold.Or another title Imagine:Fashion Designer 2.79 million copies now was that just quantity? I think those 2.79 million gamers definatly thought the game was quality. Even UbiSoft's Rabbids series sold over 700,000 copies which is very good for a handheld game.

UbiSoft made a killing on their DS games, Nintendo made a killing in royalties. Nintendo probably sold hardware thanks to alot of these female focused titles. Then lets look at UbiSoft on PSP, Assasins Creed on PSP sold over a million copies and so did Lumines. Of course UbiSoft had more success on DS with their Imagine and Petz titles but they definatly impacted PSP sales as well. Considering how low Sony's software sales were on PSP Assasins Creed doing this well shows that it was a very big title! The highest selling title on PSP according to VGChartz only broke the 6-million mark. So Assasins Creed is up their listing within the top fourty highest selling PSP games.

A little research shows that UbiSoft is very important to Nintendo's handhelds and even Sony's handhelds! If Nintendo wants to attract female gamers like they did with DS they need Imagine and Petz titles, if they want to steal market share from Sony and compete then they need Assasins Creed and other western titles.

I don't believe for a second that western titles are not a force on handhelds! Look at PSP's sales figures the top ranking games other then Monster Hunter where are the japanese games? Square-Enix and Capcom are high in the charts but look GTA outsold Monster Hunter, but I thought that Western portable titles didn't sell well? I also see Activision and EA games pocked throughout the top 50 list.Lucas Arts, Warner Bros. Sales figures prove that the PSP was largely sold by western third party developers.

Then look at Nintendo's top twenty DS games. 17 of them are from Nintendo themselves but what about the other three titles they must be Japanese right? Well one Mario and Sonic at the Olympics was sorta first party. So number 15 is from Majesco and number  20 on the highest selling list for DS and the first non-First party title is.... Lego StarWars from Lucas Arts! But wait that must be an anomaly because Western developers weren't that successful on DS, wait out of the top fifty and excluding games published by Nintendo themselves I see Activision, EAGames, UbiSoft, Majesco , Disney Interactive, Warner Bros. Umm what about the Japanese developed games? Where's Capcom or Square-Enix? Well Square actually has two of the top fifty titles, but Capcom is non-existent.

A little research and look at the handheld industry shows that while MH was extremely important to PSP. Western developers and publishers outside of Nintendo's first party studios sold more software and in turn more hardware. Yes Nintendo's first party content made in Japan trumped everything. But as far as third party content is concerned western third parties dominated the handheld market.

Even Monster Hunter on PSP could take on RockStar's GTA. So please arguing that North America is not important or somehow less important than Japan is insane. Also seeing as UbiSoft's titles on DS made up a good chunk of the non-first party titles in the top fifty DS games I would say it proves that they were very important to Nintendo's success.