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Bofferbrauer on 07 April 2015
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Teeqoz said:
vkaraujo said:
Hard to say. There are 3 questionable points in your OP.

- You are assuming no Nintendo games would sell less. By stating this, you are ignoring loyalty effect toward the big 3, that no Third Party have to this day.
- You are assuming this wouldn't hurt their HH business.
- You are assuming there would be no brand damage.

But it is a good exercise, i will keep an eye.


I don't think Nintendo fans would just stop being loyal to Nintendo because they went multiplat.

Frankly, I see no possible way this could hurt their HH business more than them making mobile games is. Actually I'd argue that in the same way they wanna make mobile games to attract people to their other gaming devices, this could massively expand their audience, and attract people to their future handhelds.

It could expand their audience, but there's no guarantee to it at all. Worse even, Nintendos own titles could get drowned between the "mature" titles of the other consoles and their "kiddie" image, thus possibly selling even less.

Also, I find your calculations a bit flawed:

1. 40$ per third party title/60$ for Nintendo titles: I don't know the situation where you live, but here third party titles don't drop in price at all on the Wii U, or at least rarely. From my point of view here, you could keep them at a higher price. On top of that, not every Nintendo title sells for 60$ at release. So I'd say 50$ each would be more appropriate.

2. You're missing out on the digital sales on the eShop. We don't know how much they sell there but the earnings Nintendo gains there would be lost if going third party. And some of the Indies sell rather well, so this does adds quite a few millions to the balance

3. Could Nintendo still keep their 60$ pricetag for so long on consoles where most games drop their prices after a few weeks or month? Not so sure about that. Since Nintendo games are much less frontloaded than games of other companies, this might be very significant.

4. Would they still produce games from smaller series as they do now to feed their consoles? Very doubtful, just look at SEGA. This would reduce the amount of games and thus sales as a whole. The Lineup would probably be reduced to Mario Jump & Run, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Smash, Mario Kart and the odd other title once in a while, as they will have to concentrate on games which really make them money.