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Soundwave on 17 May 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Mmmm ... personally I think the Wii U and GameCube is the model that yields the slimmest profits. It's not like you magically make extra money for being different or saying "we are in our own market". 

Nintendo software is where Nintendo makes their money from along with licensing fees. A higher userbase resulting from a more mainstream system would give Nintendo a higher userbase to sell their own games to and more royalty fees to collect from third parties.

Nintendo is competing with Sony/MS whether they want to admit it or not as well.

The GameCube would've waxed the XBox if it launched a full year earlier and had a comfortable no.2 finish that generation too IMO. Launching so late and making some silly choices with the hardware (a purple lunchbox? seriously how far out of touch do you have to be to think people actually would want that? how many purple appliances do people keep in their home generally? Hello? Bueller?).

The Super NES was the last really traditional system that Nintendo made which wasn't hamstrung by poor design choices and launching later than the Genesis really didn't hurt them back then, because Sega initially had no third party support or brand mindshare really to hurt Nintendo with.

So what about the here and now when it comes to third parties. Answer me this: Do you believe that all major third parties will support Nintendo throughout the generation, if only Nintendo provides hardware with comparable specs?

I think Nintendo genuinely had a window of oppurtunity here that they didn't recoginize properly. The blue ocean market has indeed moved on to tablets/phones, but there is a large market that's sick to death of their PS3/360 and wants to move on. Developers too, I think the development community wants to move on badly. That was actually the market Nintendo should've targetted. People are starving for a generational leap, not yet another 360/PS3 with a low-res screen taped to a Pro Controller.

There is no conspiracy against Nintendo either, they just keep making hardware that's hilariously out of step with what Western developers want. If they made a piece of hardware that was in tune with what Western developers want (which is basically a PC GPU in a box) it would probably be enthusiastically supported.

Especially if it's the only game in town for a year, a lot of publishers IMO would look at it and say "hey lets get a jump on the next-generation and be the next dominant publisher for the next 5-6 years by making the first next-gen blockbuster". Third parties don't actively dislike Nintendo, it's just that Nintendo keeps giving them reasons to look elsewhere.