Nintendo's Achilles heel?

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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Just a reminder:

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Call of Duty: Ghosts	X360	2013	Shooter	Activision	5.22	2.03	0.02	0.60	7.87
2	Call of Duty: Ghosts	PS3	2013	Shooter	Activision	2.98	2.61	0.35	1.19	7.12
3	Call of Duty: Ghosts	PS4	2013	Shooter	Activision	0.91	0.58	0.00	0.14	1.63
4	Call of Duty: Ghosts	XOne	2013	Shooter	Activision	0.98	0.33	0.00	0.08	1.39
5	Call of Duty: Ghosts	PC	2013	Shooter	Activision	0.14	0.24	0.00	0.07	0.45
6	Call of Duty: Ghosts	WiiU	2013	Shooter	Activision	0.09	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.12

 

People don't buy Nintendo consoles to play realistic games, and those who buy Nintendo consoles play realistic games on other consoles. Breaking this trend would required great effort, starting with many losses. Sure, if Nintendo had their own "Uncharted" series they may attract some new buyers the same way Uncharted made Xbox users buy a Playstation and Halo made PS users buy an Xbox, but fact remains that they currently are unable to develop such a title. This gives them two options:

1) Their current route, securing deals with third party developers to get exclusive titles such as ZombiU.

2) Start a new first party studio and hire new people with the intention of making "mature" titles.

 

Ignoring that fact that Yamauchi strictly forbade Nintendo to develop +18 titles (after all, though extremely unlikely, this policy could change at some point in the future), the first option is by far the safest option. And in their current financial situation being safe is really the only option.

option 1 is short term. both options can be used effectively, they have cash to invest.

this will need to be done if they want to attract single platform gamers who will only game on their systems. This and third party support. but nothing much they can do about the latter till nextgen.