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Squilliam on 27 February 2012
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UncleScrooge said:

Holy cow, no! I'm saying the exact opposite! Nintendo are the ones acting like that and I'm on a record criticising them for it. You have to compete for these customers - obviously. Did you totally overread the part where I said smartphones are eating into that market? Again I don't disagree here. But Nintendo doesn't even want to compete because they feel they are too awesome to appeal to the mass market or something.

I said if Nintendo competed for that huge market their sales would be way better. Do you agree or not? I hope so because otherwise you would be the one acting like a customer is Apple's for life...

And that last sentence: ...No? I think it's pretty mind boggling actually that people always argue about smartphones even though the iPod Touch is actually marketed as a gaming device by Apple. 

Edit: You have to stop assuming me and others are trying to defend Nintendo. We are doing quite the opposite.

Actually what I'm saying is that you can't expect perfect performance from any company all the time. You can't simply say that Nintendo are losing X market and therefore it is all their fault, you have to also take into consideration the good performance of rivals. It is the exact same thing as not blaming Sony entirely for the better performance of Microsoft and especially Nintendo in the current generation, to do so would be disrespectful of Sony in that case and of Nintendo and Microsoft. Credit is due wherever you find good performance, so you can't absolutely say that Nintendo alone are 100% responsible for Nintendos performance. You have to take wider considerations into account.

UncleScrooge said:


You continue to post numbers but where is the proof these are actually connected? I can give you some nice "pirates are the reason for climate change" charts if you want (I actually can. My statistics prof collects that stuff like trading cards or something xD) And I think these numbers are very worrying just for different reasons.

What about Wii sales? Did the Wii also get killed by smartphones? Or maybe - just maybe - it was killed by Nintendo being unable to produce more mass market titles and focusing on the "hardcore" 3DS? No that can't be true... silly me.

Climate is a bad example as there are too many variables to consider such as the various natural climatic cycles. If in an expanding market one player remains stagnant or shrinks then you can give a strong argument that the increasing sales of a competitor have something to do with it. So whilst climate science is 9x% certain, you'd be picking at threads to argue a strong case against it.

RolStoppable said:

Indeed, it's no big deal.

Home console manufacturers aren't worried about PC software revenue, so why should handheld manufacturers be worried about pocket PCs (which is what smartphones are)? Especially when the pocket PC is almost exclusively used for low end gaming so far while an actual PC isn't a threat to home consoles depite being used for low end as well as high end gaming.

Where were you when Iwata said that they compete against all forms of gaming and every major form of entertainment from TV to Facebook?



Tease.