| pokoko said: I'm pretty sure Nintendo has made quite a bit of money selling hardware, especially handheld hardware. Business is about growth, especially concerning Nintendo's shrinking consumer base in the west. We know current Nintendo fans will probably buy an NX device. Will the people who would only buy ONE device balance out the loss of hardware revenue by buying more software? Perhaps. The question I'm asking is if the NX will cause NEW customers to consider Nintendo's combined platform where they passed over the separate handheld/home console ecosystems in the past. If you don't understand the question I'm just going to move on. |
They've made money but the majority of it comes from software otherwise they would have been in the red from when the N64 came out, software has always balanced out lost hardware sales for them, growth is generated by change of approach and new strategies. It's a new approach so it can bring in new consumers if executed right as NX as a unified platform under speculation will be across home console, portable, mobile and QOL becoming a different kind of brand then what it's predecessors were.
