zorg1000 said:
Maybe Nintendo will finally realize that 3rd parties simply will not give full support and wont sell well on there consoles. N64-most powerful, poor support GC-decent multiplat support, horrible multiplat sales Wii-market leader, poor support Wii U-first on market, poor support/poor sales Nintendo needs to realize all they need to do is release affordable hardware (ideally $199 at launch) sold at a profit with a steady stream of 1st/2nd party software and they will be fine. If they do this it doesnt matter if the hardware only sells at Wii U levels because they are still making money and the big Nintendo franchises will still sell well. Even on a lifetime install base of 15 million (currently what Wii U is tracking) 2D/3D Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros can each sell around 5 million, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Animal Crossing can sell around 3 million and Pikmin, Metroid, Kirby, among others can sell over 1 million. Gamecube, Nintendo 64, and Wii U are proof that Nintendo games dont require a huge install base in order to sell well. |
I actually don't think it's this simple.
There are a few problems with your arguements. One N64/GameCube budgets are a fraction of Wii U budgets, and presumably you want another Nintendo console, which will likely be in the PS4-range of chipset ... which will cost even more money.
Having just a 20 million (or even 30 million-ish) userbase simply isn't enough when development costs keep rising.
The other point is the Nintendo audience has eroded a lot in the last 15 years even from the N64 days. On the N64 things like Wave Race and 1080 Snowboarding and NBA Courtside and Turok could sell more than 1 million copies WW easily, and games like Star Fox 64, GoldenEye, etc. cleared 4+ million.
Today's Nintendo audience quite frankly is a lot more narrow in their software choices. They've lost a lot of Nintendo fans that bought the above games to Sony/MS and have been left with a very tunnel vision focused audience that buys primarily things with just Mario in them. Even for Nintendo these days anything else beyond a narrow formula is a pretty tough go.
