A New Take On the AJ/Nintendo Incident

[zorg1000]

Dunban67 said:

zorg1000 said:

Who cares if Nintendo sales stay stagnant? 100 million hardware and 500 million software is no number to scoff at. Let's also consider that from fiscal year 1991-2006, Nintendo averaged about $1 billion annually. As long as Nintendo has a large enough install base to sell Nintendo IP to and is making consistant profits than they are fine.

But they have not been making constant profit-  they did for many years but the last 3/4 years they have been losing money and this gneration they won t make it to 100 milion/500 million-      So if they stay at the Wii U/3DS levels they will contine to lose money- if they drop from those levels it will get ugly quick -  I think we both want them to continue to make the quality console and handheld games they always have but if they dont do someting to change the trajectory they have been on they will start putting more resources in other areas, perhaps like mobile or some other areas and even less in the console market/games

I would rather see them invest a bit more of their money to thrive instead of using it to survive -   If they had committed to the type of Wii U possibilties they talked about pre launch, incluinding doing better w 3rd parties, the Wi U could have been amazing and sold far better but they just were not willing to comit the resources to it 

Ur counter points are things I have already touched base on.

3DS+Wii U won't make it to 100/500 million due to being the highest price hardware Nintendo has ever released. Here is the price of 4th/5th/6th gen hardware in the middle of each gen.

1993, SNES-$129.99, Gameboy-$89.99

1998, N64-$129.99, Gameboy Color-$69.99

2003, GC-$99.99, Gameboy Advance-$99.99

Adjusted for inflation, that averages out to about $300 to get both the Nintendo handheld and console.

2015, Wii U-$299.99 New 3DS XL-$199.99, total $500

That along with horrible marketing/advertising can explain why Nintendo will fail to reach the 100/500 million baseline and will instead sell around 80-90/400-450 million.

As for profits, yes Nintendo lost money for 3 years in a row, this also happens to be the first time that Nintendo was selling hardware at a loss for 3 years in a row, is that a coincidence?

Next generation, Nintendo needs to offer lower cost hardware with better marketing/advertising (no more confusion like 3DS being a DS revision & Wii U being a Wii add-on) along with selling at a profit day 1. Of they can do this than their is no reason to believe they can't return to the baseline they held for over 20 years.