Nintendo would fail as 3rd party, and here's why!

[DanneSandin]

lucidium said:

DanneSandin said:

Point 1) Nintendo's games would hardly sell more on PS4/X1 than on Nintendo's own consoles since those genre don't have a track record that supports that point.

Point 2) Selling less games, or even selling as many games as on Nintendo's own console, still would mean lost profits due to the royalties.

Point3) A lot of Nintendo's smaller franchises wouldn't make as much money any more, due to royalties

Point 4) More competition means more advertisment, which means spening more money, and that means less profits

GoW and Fable are on the list to represent potential Zelda buyers, which might be one of the few Nintendo franchises that could see expanded sales - IF done in the style of Twilight Princess.

1) Since Nintendo game fans would have nowhere else to turn for Nintendo games, the sales would still be there, and any losses of sales because of the move would be picked up by Xbox and PlayStation fans, if you think otherwise you're foolish and.. ever so slightly delusional

Nintendo fans wants cheap HW, and $400-$500 isn't what they're looking for.

2) Not having to develop a new console would take a large portion of that loss away, not having to pay the workers and maintanence of the factories they own, also takes from the loss, the factories could also be sold, further detracting from that loss to a point where they are actually better off.

That's a profit in the short term, kind of like when Sony sold off their HQ's...

3) A lot of Nintendos smaller franchises don't sell well regardless, or are you going to tell me Pikmin 3 is a runaway success that had people falling over themselves to buy a WiiU.

And these franchises would possibly sell even less, when they would have to sell MORE to simply be just as profitable as they are now. And that's another reason why they shouldn't go 3rd party.

4) Why would they need to advertise any more than they already do?, just because the game releases on another console does not mean that it suddenly has new games to contend with, those games were always there, and frankly, if sales for mario titles declined because other games existed on the SAME console, then it would just go to show that the brand really isnt as strong as Nintendo fans believe, and were only seeing artificial numbers fueled by the lack of competition on their own platform.

Whether or not Mario is or isn't as strong a brand as Nintendo fans thinks is besides the point. The point is sales and profits. If Mario games would decline in sales because of more competition, the more reason for Nintendo to NOT go 3rd party.

Everything else is just nonsenical poorly thought out padding to what is essentially a poor argument against Nintendo becoming third party.

You would think that, wouldn't you?