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S.T.A.G.E. on 22 May 2014
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padib said:

spemanig said:

And my point stands that your point is flat. Nintendo doesn't have "a few years of market drought." They've had two whole decades of steady decline, only to be tempererily spiked by an intelligently orchestrated fad, and now the decline is back on schedule. I'm not critisizing their games. I love their games. I've owned almost every Nintendo console and I've play games from every system. I'm no stranger to their mass appeal, but mass appeal doesn't mean universal appeal and now that overstretched appeal is being outdone by more focused and direct western targeting appeal. They need to get with the program.

Let me give you a hint, the first game in the category you listed, in the top selling games of all time, is Uncharted 2 at rank #117  with 6.38m units.

In the meantime, the first gamecube game (obviously by Nintendo) ranks at #99 with 7m sold, that was Smash. This is Nintendo's rock bottom.

For the N64, the first ranks at #41, that's Super Mario 64 with roughly 12m units, when Nintendo was deserted by 3rd parties and plagued with the image of being 2nd best.

To point out, these were at a time when the total home console sales did not exceed 200m units (gen 6) and even 150m (gen 5). We are now in an industry that sells nearly 265m home console units (gen 7).

So, quick newsflash, Uncharted won't save Nintendo anytime soon. I'm not saying it doesn't have any value, ask Rol I personally suggested Uncharted many times for Nintendo, but the truth is that there are priorities for the company. First they need to nail their main course, only then can they wish to conquer uncharted territory.

No pun intended.

Makes sense. While I love Uncharted, Sony needs to start trying to get back in the good graces of Nintendo for leaving them hanging for so long.  They need to spearhead an initiative to get more Japanese RPG's on the console. If Sony can sell at least 20 million consoles in Japan this gen the battle with Microsoft will already be over.