| DanneSandin said: I agree with both you and Wyrdness; this would be the smarter option to go for, for Nintendo. But will they? Just think about how many people how have bought BOTH ersions of SMash, Mario Kart or whatever else. That's a pretty big revenue Nintendo would loose; the double dippers. Is your argument that this would be made up for with more games being produced and thus sold? I think Nintendo would rather sell Mario Kart two times (one time for each system) and sell about 15m of that game, instead of selling 10m MK games and make a Kirby game that sells 2m.... That's the biggest concern I have with the Fusion concept. I'd love to just have ONE Mario Kart per gen, ONE Smash bros, ONE NSMB etc for BOTH consoles, but would Nintendo be happy with not selling as many games from their biggest franchises? Would the quantity of new/other games being made make up for those lost sales? |
Well let's take a look at some potential numbers
Mario Kart 7 potential numbers (currently 11.7 million)
13 million x $40=$540 million
Mario Kart 8 potential numbers (currently 5.11 million)
7 million x $60=$420 million
Total
20 million, $960 million, with DLC about $1 billion
Mario Kart 9 potential numbers (let's assume right between MK7 & MK7+8)
16.5 million x $50=$825 million, with DLC about $1 billion
To me this seems like a relatively realistic scenario, it's possible for Nintendo to make a similar amount of revenue with one title instead of two and u also have to consider that they are still free to make another game.
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