Is it game over for Nintendo?

[Mnementh]

runqvist said:

Mnementh said:

Soccer moms and grandpas and the hardcore-nintendo-fans never would have bought games you like from other companies. People who generally do this, did it besides the games they bought from Nintendo. Why should they stop buying games from other companies, if they buy from NIntendo? But consoles obviously play a role in it, as Nintendo games are only available on Nintendo-consoles. And again, while the soccer-moms/grandpas and hardcore-nintendo-fans probably only have a Nintendo-console, the people who in the market the other companies cater too have also a PC or a console from competition to play on. So no lost sales for other companies. It is the other way: EA (EA Sports Active), Ubisoft (Just Dance), Take Two (Carnival Games) made a lot of money with people that never would have bought the games you like, the titles I mentioned sold multiple million copies each. So the style NIntendo offered brought money to publishers to finance other games with. Without Just Dance Ubisoft probably would not have so much money to invest into Watchdogs.

So, is that all the people who bought the wii? No-one else? I think that is a pretty rude thing to say about Wii.

Are you aware that money does not grow on trees? It is a limited resource, every single sale affects sales of other competing(entertainment) products. If a soccer mom, like you used as an example, boughts a wii fit, she might not afford to get her kids the game they wanted. If a gamer spends 200€ for Wii, that is money away from buying games. If he gets mario, that is 60€ away from buying the games I would like to sell. Do you get the point or do I have to go on?*

 

*rhetorical

As you don't seem to read, I bolded the parts that are not only about soccer-moms.

I agree that money is limited. But the gaming budget also goes into movies, music and stuff like that. If they have money over from games,  they buy that. Additionally, people who are buying less casual-games do so too from Nintendo. And my argument stands, that with the money from people who never would have bought classical games finance new game IPs.