marley said:
VGhippy said:
I've never seen anyone on this site claim that Nintendo is doomed. I'll happily make the claim that Nintendo should pull out of the home console business (not handhelds) and go third party because the WiiU is bleeding them money than I can ever dream of. But financially they have something like 8 billion in the bank and the profits from the 3DS prevent them from going too far into the red due to the WiiU. I repeat, Nintendo is not doomed, but the WiiU is some serious dead weight for them right now and Mario is a great franchise that actually deserves a decent userbase to sell to.
For the record, I also think Sony should ditch its TV and VITA products. Sony is not doomed either btw but it's sad to see games like Uncharted GA, Gravity Rush and Killzone Mercs only get a fraction of they sales they should get because they are being released on a dead end platform with a tiny userbase. |
The problem with your conclusion is the 'right now' part. If every console maker decided to stop, simply because they were losing money on a console at some point, then no one would be making consoles. It seems 'strange' to hold Nintendo to this standard, yet ignoring that both Sony and MS have incurred losses on their consoles during each generation.
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That's a fair point. I am holding Nintendo to a different standard but I do have a reason for this. I think outside of Halo, Gran Turismo, Uncharted and maybe a few others, Microsoft and Sony simply don't have IP's that are anywhere near as valuable as Nintendo's IP's. They simply don't have anything else other than control of the platforms to barter with. I genuinely believe that if SMB3DW had released on PS3/4/xbox360/X1 Nintendo would be looking at lifetime sales of at least 20mil. As it stands I think it will be lucky to do 3mil lifetime on the WiiU due to the small userbase. I do think the world wants to play Mario games on their TV screens, but $300 is a big sum just to play Nintendo games, and that's just the part the consumers pay. If the consoles are being sold at a loss then Nintendo has to fork out as well.
If I can just sum it up, I'd say it's a tragedy that such as small amount of people will be able to play Nintendo games, and that Nintendo had to bleed money to allow them to do that. It just seems wrong.
