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reggin_bolas on 30 October 2013
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Mr Khan said:
reggin_bolas said:
Mr Khan said:
reggin_bolas said:
Another solid reason why Nintendo should go the way of third parties. People want Nintendo games, not Nintendo consoles. It's been like this since the N64.

And what would Nintendo gain from this, financially?


Uh, huge sales from the 80 million install base in current gen consoles such as PS3 and 360. The PS4 and Xbone will probably have the same at the end of the future gen cycle.

The original Wii was a fluke, no way will Nintendo ever pass 30 million with the Wii U.

This really shouldn't be controversial, experts like Pacher have advocated this for years.

Again, how will they make more money that way?

It is a known fact that console makers don't really make money on consoles, they are reap benefits from licensing fees and other user fees (e.g. Xbox Live). 

 

Again, the original Wii was a fluke, the Wii U was breaking even at its past price point I believe. So now, theoretically, Nintedo should be losing money on each unit sold. Nintendo can't recover much from licensing fees because they virtually have no third party support. So their main income is from pushing first-party software.

They can push first party software better on consoles people actually want to buy. They would make more money by selling software alone rather than have to spend money on console development, R&D, etc.