| Soundwave said:
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 tempt with a $150 microconsole (after a price drop) that plays Mario Kart 9, Pokemon (the real Pokemon games), Mario Galaxy 3, and Monster Hunter 5 on my big screen TV, and y'know maybe, just maybe Nintendo can convince a few extra folkes to buy one as a secondary device. GoldenEye is a lifetime ago too now, and really it was kind of an inadvertant fluke (Nintendo barely marketed it at first). It was supposed to be just a throw-away filler title for the N64. |
And none of those "me too" shooters are first party console shooters. They don't have the chance that a Nintendo developed AAA shooter would.
It's not inevitable. Core Nintendo fans aren't moving to smart phones. They're moving to other consoles and PCs. Their priority next gen is to lay the foundation for an eternal Nintendo platform.
The sales pitch of a $300 Nintendo console to a PS/XBox owner is not unappealling. The sales pitch of a $300 Nintendo console with no appealing games to a PS/XBox owner is unappealling. As long as Nintendo tries selling Mario to an Uncharted fan, they're doomed to not sell anything to them. A weaker, cheaper, Nintendo console will never get someone who was never interested in those games to buy it. A stronger, more modern console with the types of games they're playing on the systems they own, as well as games they never thought about trying, would.
There will alway be Playstation fans, Xbox fans, and Nintendo fans who will never abandon their favorite consoles, but there is currently an audience of like 60m XB/PS owners who don't care either way. They're indipendents, and they just want the "best" console. They migrated to the 360 last gen from the PS2 the gen before, and now some of them split again back to the PS4. That is the untapped market Nintendo needs to go for.
It doesn't matter if it was inadvertant. It was not a fluke and it's proof of the power of a mass market western title on a Nintendo console. That is even more important now when western games are frankly much more powerful, from a sales perspective, than japanese games. That was just one game. If nintendo had 5-6 "Goldeneyes" on their next console, it would be a home run.
