Mythmaker1 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Mythmaker1 said:
Nintendo's strategy has worked well for them in the past. While the inclusion of third-parties can certainly help them, if they were so inclined, it's not really necessary if they manage their business properly.
Nintendo's problem is that they haven't been managing themselves properly, and without third-parties to pick up the slack, it's been rough for them.
Honestly, I think their problem is they've been going through a rough transition. Unlike Microsoft and Sony, they're still very much a toy company at heart, and I think that the change has percolated down to development, but hasn't quite managed to work its way up to management yet. |
Nintendo has always profited, but hut this gen they are taking a loss and for all the wrong reasons. They need third parties more than ever this generation. Their first party better be top notch. Nintendo wants to profit off of the COD's, Assassins Creeds and games of that ilk that have high sales on the Nintendo platform. They cannot understand that they drove their consumers away from third party, not third party. They revenue Sony and Microsoft get from third party is very high compared to Nintendo. Nintendo needs the high numbers for the major stable third party games, which they barely ever get. The Wii was very sporadic and mostly low in profit.
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Like I said, Nintendo can manage their business without having to rely on third parties to profit. It's always preferrable to have it than not, but Nintendo, especially, is good on profiting from their own hardware. They simply need proper planning and a good sense of where the market is to avoid taking a loss.
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No one said Nintendo wont profit off of the hardware and first party. Third party profit is very important and Nintendo wants a piece of it and it's shown. They want the hardcore gamers who dont always game Nintendo to come back and really not have to look elsewhere for third party titles. The problem is they aren't giving an effort to make that happen. You're giving them all the excuses in the world to be lazy and be in third place.
