Yakuzaice said:
Whose fault is it that Nintendo didn't make the necessary investments to be able to support two platforms? Then made the same mistake again with the Wii U launch. Nintendo had the money and the time to learn from other publishers in regards to HD development, yet here we are. He did little to stop them from going to smartphones. Most of their casual hits on the DS released in the mid 2000's. They didn't even attempt to compete in terms of pricing or volume of releases. That's why Brain Age went from selling 20 million to basically nothing on 3DS. |
@bold. And they never will as that is not part of their pricing strategy. You can disagree all you want but it's a philosophical decision. If Nintendo starts pricing down its full game releases (I'm not talking about lightweight e-shop software), it's basically game over for them. As for volume of releases, that's the same argument as in 1. The low sales of Brain Age are mostly due to a poor migration from the DS to the 3DS of the casual market, I have no idea how Nintendo could have countered that honestly and the first solution you presented is game over for Nintendo so you're basically asking for the impossible. They were between a rock and a hard place and the outcome is what it was, Nintendo would have had to be genuises to get out of that one.
As for investments to support two platforms, Nintendo has a certain business structure built around some of its key artists. They probably will have a lot of trouble breaking out of that model and just pumping out resources. Money isn't the only thing that matters these resources need to be managed and it doesn't seem like Nintendo's model can support that, and at what risk of cost an architectural business change may come.
