| jennryan3190 said: exclusives are still good to have though. Just think, if nintendo didnt have their exclusives... there would be no reason to buy a wii u. Just get it on one console or pc you already have. |
Given Nintendo hasn't made substantial profits from home console.hardware sales in any generation other than Wii, would that be a bad thing? If they could sell 30 million copies of all their top tier franchises every time, rather than only in a generation where they sell 100 million consoles, that makes Nintendo more profitable and more successful. Handheld is a bit different and there remains compelling reason to buy a handheld device even when there are no exclusives. Even so we are seeing a huge reduction in the handheld market and Nintendo will need to think about what next. If 3DS winds update about 70 million and 4DS head is the direction of 40 million Nintendo may wind up with unsustainably small user bases on both home and handheld console.
A if you approach the gaming biz from the perspective that you're using software as a means for selling hardware you may be playing a mug's game now.
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