Don't worry about Atari, they will be around forever!

[Play4Fun]

richardhutnik said:

Play4Fun said:
Why are people talking as if Miyamoto is keeping Nintendo running? I thought he was training the younger devs nowadays and taking a less...up-front role.

Anyways, when somebody says Nintendo will be around it's just in response to people who instantly shout doom at every little stumble.

They don't literally mean they'll be around "forever." They just mean they'll be around a long time from now because the fact that they makes sure to keep a warchest close to them, have been profitable for the majority of their years, keep their franchises at a quality that continues to keep them in high demand, don't sell hardware at big losses and don't really do the seemingly unsustainable high budget sell-or-bust thing inspires confidence in their future financial state and longevity.

1. Just like Microsoft seems of their game with their top management leaving (since Gates left, Microsoft hasn't been keeping up), Nintendo is going to face issues when Miyamoto retires.  Most of the noted IP at Nintendo that makes Nintendo, Nintendo, is due to him.  He is THAT important to Nintendo and the videogame industry.  You have some exceptions, but the core of what is Nintendo is him.  And I think, if you end up thinking Miyamoto training people means that he is going to impart his own innovation, and genius, something is off there.  That is more of the same.  What is needed is new stuff, that are different and hit the market differently.

2. What Nintendo is facing is the strategy of not selling a console at a large loss means they are producing consoles that don't have a long enough lifespan.  With the WiiU, unless the second screen shows itself as a must have feature, they have their recycling of old IP to lean on.  This is NOT a good place to be in.  To have the 3DS be relevant, Nintendo had to dip in the selling at a loss.

3. Thing is now, they aren't producing the next must-have IP at all.  And when you are here, your days are numbered.  It happened to Atari, and can happen to others.  And if you think this is just about Nintendo, you miss the point.

1. Miyamoto and Nintendo have been preparing for his retirement for a while.  There isn't going to be some mass panic in the company and big dip in quality of their software when he does.

2. I don't know what this means. Their console lifespans usually are the same  as other consoles. That's a place they always know they'll be in. Iwata himself said they count on their IPs to counter the unpredictability of how their hardware will be recieved by the market. They know they take risks with hardware, that's why they always make sure they have  strong cash reserves.

3. Nintendo have a number of must have IPs in their portfolio and they're very capable of creating must have IPs,probably more than anyone else in this industry, as they showed in the last decade with Nintendogs, Brain Training, WiiSports, WiiFit.

And, no I'm not missing any point, this thread is mainly about Nintendo as are the posts from other threads that prompted you to make this one.