Ka-pi96 said:
PxlStorm said:
Ka-pi96 said:
PxlStorm said:
They'd have to give some of their revenue made off of these games to Sony and Microsoft. And pretty much everybody who has a PS4 and XBox One would have access to this new platform as well.
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That's arguable. Plenty of people don't have great gaming computers and plenty don't particularly like gaming on PC either. Look at the huge sales differences between console and PC games. Not just the actual numbers, look at the revenue, console gamers are willing to pay more up front than PC gamers are.
Here in the UK the cost of a brand new console game is £40-£50, while the cost of a new PC game is £30-£40. The amount they'd have to pay out in platform royalties would effectively be covered by that. Not to mention they could get marketing agreements with the console makers (as most other publishers do), saving them money on advertising and boosting their sales.
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But the Wii U has an audience of 9-10m owners. The PC service would certainly open up a bigger userbase than before, which would obviously help sales as well. And as I stated in my post, most Nintendo games have a low graphical level. I don't have a dedicated gaming PC and yet my PC can still run most of the games from 2013 and 2014.
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But by neglecting the console userbase they'd losing out on a lot of potential sales. They'd make much more money being multiplat than PC exclusive.
That said, if it was possible it may not be a bad idea to copy Microsoft and keep the console going and also release on their own exclusive PC marketplace. That gives them some of the benefits you propose by increasing their potential audience but it still gives them the possibility to get console sales. This approach however would make getting 3rd party multiplats on their consoles even more important so that it makes their console more competitive despite only having partial rather than full exclusives.
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This service could not co-exist with a Nintendo console because, like you said,the console wouldn't be able to compete against the other consoles. This is why the PC service idea is good in my eyes. It wouldn't need to compete against the other services because it's for free, just like Steam, Uplay and so on.
