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Soundwave on 27 January 2015
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

Well I think we all know they're never going to do that. It's just not in their internal makeup and runs contrary to a lot of their internal principals. 

Even if they did, it's probably far too late in the game now. Sony and MS are too entrenched, Nintendo playing "me too, come play our GTA knockoff" at this point would just look like a third wheel.

There isn't really a good option for them right now to be honest, other than to hope maybe one of their internal studios can hit gold with a new Pokemon and having a cheap/profitable line of hardware next cycle. 


I wouldn't say never, but I do agree that it's unlikely.

It's too late for the Wii U, but not at all too late for Nintendo as a brand. Nintendo would have a hit if they released their next console with what I said. It doesn't matter if it looks like a third wheel. It would sell. Destiny, in concept, is just a Halo/Borderlands mash up, but it became the fastest selling new IP of all time.

It would be the same with Nintendo. They make AAA western games, market them well, and they'd sell. It's not complicated, but it's something Nintendo hasn't done since Goldeneye.

More cheap hardware will only make them lose more of their audience. There is no more "blue ocean." 


Destiny is a game with a $100 million dollar budget and a monstrous marketing campaign behind it. For every Destiny there's plenty of "me too" shooters that end up being no where near as successful. 

I agree Nintendo will lose some of their audience, but at this point it's inevitable because of the rise of smart devices. Their priority now is likely to squeeze as much profit from the next-cycle as they can. 

Who knows too, I mean the sales pitch of a $300 Nintendo console to a PS/XBox owner is likely unappealling, but y'know maybe you can tempt them better with a $150 microconsole (after a price drop) that plays Mario Kart 9, Pokemon (the real Pokemon games), Mario Galaxy 3, Mario Maker, Virtual Console, and Monster Hunter 5 on their big screen TV, and y'know maybe, just maybe Nintendo can convince a few extra folkes to buy one as a secondary device. 

I'm not saying it would be a huge success in that way, but if they can sell 55 million of the handheld variant and even just 15 million of the home version, that's still 70 million users ... should be enough to make some good money off of as long as the hardware is not making a loss for them. 

GoldenEye is a lifetime ago too now, and really it was kind of an inadvertant fluke (Nintendo barely marketed it at all it was all word of mouth). It was supposed to be just a throw-away filler title for the N64. Nintendo really has never understood the audience for more violent type games, I think by the time Conker rolled around, they had a identity crisis going on about what type of company they wanted to be, and the GameCube being cute and purple basically won out (the Japanese side put their foot down in other words).