RolStoppable said:
They are kind indeed. The thread that post was from was filled with rampant stupidity. Uncle Scrooge said it best: Nintendo fans cheering on their favorite company to go bankrupt. |
1.) Nintendo isn't going bankrupt. Not even if they lost the same amount of money for the next 20 years straight.
2.) Nintendo is still going to sell like 85-90 million pieces of hardware this generation. So someone is still buying their hardware and the games. Their main issue really might be the fragmentation of their consumer base into two seperate platforms which means something like Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon only have a fraction of the userbase to sell. That and they relied on a very expensive gimmick controller for Wii U which has prevented profitiability the last two years as far as I can see (a mistake they should probably avoid).
3.) You act like getting attention from casuals is easy. It's not. Try taking a smartphone away from a woman for even ten minuntes and see how long it takes before you get punched in the face. Women LOVE their smartphone. If Nintendo lost that audience, then really there's not much that could be done.
I'm sure Microsoft would love to have a way to way to combat Apple/Samsung, I'm sure about 20 other multi-billion dollar companies would do. Once Apple laid down the gauntlet for how (and how much) smartphone games are sold for, it was always the end for Nintendo's reign with casuals. They can't compete with that, but neither can many other companies. Nothing to be ashamed of.
