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Akvod on 31 March 2013
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Player2 said:
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What's the point of Nintendo staying in the console business?

They're barely making money off the console itself, and they're not getting 3'rd party support from which they could extract royalties from.

The answer is in your post: In their console they don't have to pay royalties to anybody else.


And is that worth more than doubling their customer base?

Doubling? What happened with handhelds?

By console I meant home consoles. I think they should stay in the handheld market since they have a good target segment and didn't fuck up in terms of the hardware or 3'rd party support.

If we take a look at the last gen Nintendo sold ~388M home console games. If this is approximatedly true:

Then Nintendo needs to sell (27+7)*388M/27=488M, around 100M games more, something I don't think it's feasible. To put things in perspective, that's approximatedly the amount of games Square Enix or Ubisoft have sold on the HD consoles this gen.

And that is without the money Nintendo makes from the sales of third party games on its platforms.

Why exactly would they need to have a publisher?

I did a quick analysis and here's what I got:

So yeah, let's get down to the publisher thing since it makes a big deal. Why exactly would Nintendo need a publisher? I'm assuming you mean Nintendo approaching a company like Activision, EA, or maybe one of the Big 3.

 

Edit: Google Docs 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akier6EZHQH1dDJ5UTgxamJQbnZzeXVPRTZqTGE1d3c&usp=sharing