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Soundwave on 18 July 2015
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GTstation said:
Miyamotoo said:
GTstation said:
From games. By a major corporate shake up that achieves an entirely new company direction.

NX can coexist with Nintendo releasing on PC/PS4/Xbox. Mario Kart9 on those 3 and nx is a +30m seller.




Releasing Nintendo games on PC/PS4/Xbox would be last thing Nintendo would done, they would first try anything else than that: business expansions, mobile games, leveraging strength or they IPs in cartoons/movies, toys, theme parks...releasing new 2-3 consoles..and if all that can't secure them profit and make them a loose, than maybe, maybe, they will realase their games on PC/PS4/Xbox.

But trying all that things that I mentioned will require 5-10 years, and Nintendo in 2014. year with console that is their biggest flop ever and 3DS that will be their worst selling handheld and yet they managed to make $300m profit. And we already know that they realeased Amiibo, preparing QOL, NX, mobile games, Nintendo theme parks and further leveraging strength or they IPs...that will give them even bigger profit.

Also everybody knows that real Nintendo strength (what makes them so special with great and quality games) is that they have complete control of their software and having their own hardware that allow them to make things in every way they want.

So expecting Nintendo games on PC/PS4/Xbox is not wise and I think that could only expect or want someone who is not really good informed with gaming industry and Nintendo, don't realise how Nintendo works and what makes them if first place Nintendo or someone that really wants Nintendo games on PS and Xbox, in every way it not gonna happen.

Will take one forward thinking exec high up and they will be on pc/PS/xbox.  

And its very depandant on the success or failure of nx not much more.  

Everybody know thats what nintendo fans tell them selves, nothing more.  Any decent sized 3rd party dev has power to do wtf they want to do with their games.  

How nintendo works is exactly why they have been such failures in the market for the last few years, personally i dont really care if they survive or not or their competition.  But logically looking at the market and them in it its quite clear.  Their future is on other platforms, might happen fast or slow.  But its happening.  Them on moible is the first step, once they see the light of releasing on hardware they dont have to pay for they will spread their software all around.  ios android Playstation Steam, they them selves have no chance in hell of building anyt user base remotly their size.  

It is the simpelst logic possible.  They make games.  Releasing those games to the biggest possible audiences is the highest chance of success.  There is no logical counter argument.  Their hardware sales are dwindeling, as is their software.  Even their biggest fans are seeing that the time of handhleds is coming to an end even for ninty.  With one exception they have been on a decades long fall with their consoel sales.  


The truth is even a cursory glance at their financial statements show that upwards of 40% of their sales revenue comes from hardware sales. This is not a trivial amount. 

And if you've been on boards like these for as long as I have, you'll remember the same arguements being made around 2003/2004 ... Nintendo should get out of making consoles because GameCube failed. 

If they had listened to you then, they would have missed out on 100 million Wii sales and the most profitable era in video game history (something Sony or MS will never come close to touching). What would you say then, "oops?". 

So really, Nintendo has earned the right to fail. They're in a very stable position financially and have made a ton of money over the years (more than any of the other hardware makers). If they want to continue making hardware for another 5-10 years, they can if they want.