| Wyrdness said: The console market has been western dominated since its inception, the west has always had the most amount of consoles sold look it up VGC even has the numbers, of the PS2s sales 100m of them were in the west, of the NES sales over 40m were in the west, PS1 had 70m sales in the west. These flat out show the west has always been the majority of the mainstream, this is something you can't even argue as the numbers are right there in front of you whether you like it or not. What has changed isn't where the majority is it's who the majority were. Also who said anything about brand allegance try reading the post instead of between the lines XBO is doing everything you say but is way behind PS4, this says two things that one the majority tend to focus and go for just one platform and two doing everything you say doesn't remedy the situation and in fact makes little difference. You just proved my point as far as Destiny goes, the hype and marketing died out after a month? Well guess what they already did their job, many games are engineered to the mainstream but many don't get anywhere near 2m let alone 10m, many of them don't even sell as much as Nintendo's first parties, marketing and hype is more key then anything else in today when it comes to selling units today. |
I never said that the west wasn't always the majority, but never, until recently, has the console market in japan been as irrelevant as it is now. That's what I'm getting at. In an ecosystem where japan frankly doesn't matter anymore, it's stupid for any company to only make games that pretend that the tastes of the west aren't important, which is exactly what Nintendo is doing.
It doesn't matter that the XBO behind the PS4. It's still selling competently in lue of a marketing catastrophy, unlike the Wii U. No one is saying that lack of mainstream appeal is the only reason Nintendo's console business is failing, but it's impossible to deny that it's an overwhelming factor, and is a big part of the reason the XBO is still breathing right now. When XBO fucked up, they adapted and fixed what they did wrong. Nintendo is not doing that, not with it's software.
I didn't prove anything of yours. The hype marketing stopped because Activision stopped paying for it. That has no bearing on the game's appeal. It's 10m+ active userbase does. It doesn't matter if they don't sell that 10m. Even if it's 3-4m, it's 3-4m consumers Nintendo aren't even trying to get. That's stupid when they are the dominating market, and it needs to change.
