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Soundwave on 27 January 2015
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sundin13 said:
Soundwave said:

I don't think there is a Brain Training or Wii Sports coming again to save Nintendo this time. 


We need to stop pretending that anyone needs to be "saved"...Nintendo only needs to sustain. A lot of people called the GC a failure because it really didn't sell all to well, but it made money, and that is what matters. The options are not PS2 or Virtual Boy...there is room in the market for more niche devices. 

Will Nintendo ever have another success as big as the Wii? Who knows. But can they get back to profitability? I'd say yes. That is the path that they should focus on. The "All or Nothing" attitude dominating the game industry (why the A/AA market died) is not helping anyone, and the sooner companies realize that its not about competing for #1, the sooner video games become better for everybody...


I agree, Nintendo can be more moderately successful in the future. 

I just think their time as far as being a major player in the home console market in particular is over. They've just mismanaged their console division too badly and the market has changed too much for them to keep up.  

If their next console basically just reuses their handheld mobile chipset (x2 or x3 perhaps) and they can sell even 15-20 million of those, they could make a decent profit even at a low price. That's probably their play. If it sells more than that, great, if not at least they don't lose any money and it solves the problem of their bigger budget games (like Mario Kart 8) being stuck on their smaller userbase (Wii U vs. 3DS). Now even if the console kinda flops, Mario Kart 9 (hypothetically) still has portable users to sell to.