BuckStud said:
Soundwave said:
Even the 3DS still is not selling very well here (sub 130k this year, perhaps down again year over year) even with Luigi's Mansion 2 and other solid releases and a much deeper library overall.
Wii U is notably a disaster.
Nintendo has lost the support of the biggest Western publisher in EA. Not even the N64 or GameCube did that.
They have really no big Western studio IPs, they have Retro/Next Level/Monster Games, but basically all these studios are allowed to work on are Japanese Nintendo I.P. that the main EAD group is too busy to work on themselves.
Does the fact that Nintendo really has invested nothing into Western IPs alienated them from the Western market after the Wii Sports/Fit/Brain Training crazes wore off?
Even in the 90s and early 2000s we'd see things like Killer Instinct, GoldenEye, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron I-III, NBA Courtside, Banjo-Kazooie, Eternal Darkness, Excitebike 64, etc. from the Western studios.
Can Nintendo continue as a major player in the Western market just relying on Japanese IP?
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How exactly has the 3DS not done well in the US?
Lets compare USA sales for handheld game systems:
Week ending May 11, 2013
3DS ... 44,207
DS ... 14,489
Vita ... 5,973
PSP ... 2,150
It's been similar for many weeks. Considering the time of year it is and the sales numbers of the competition, I'd say the 3DS has been doing great here. Now, if you want to rephrase your statement and say why aren't handheld systems as a whole doing as well in the USA, that would be a bit more accurate.
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I don't think it's really of much solace for Nintendo that the Vita is doing so poorly. I agree the entire handheld market is going down the toliet in the West.
But this thread pertains more to Nintendo and their shift away from Western content on their consoles in the 90s/early 2000s to where it is today where it's almost virtually all Japanese based content and some minimal Western 3rd party support.
