First day sold in japan, Folks Soul bombs hard...

[konnichiwa]

RolStoppable said:

konnichiwa said:

DoesWhatNintenDont said:
So do people see this as a sign of the beginnings of a new paradigm in the gaming industry?

Yes, games developpers who work long into a game and spending a lot of money into a game make almost no profit, but games developpers who make easy small games make a lot profit :( big money developpers are dieying thanks to nintendo :(.

Nintendo is making both kinds of games and they make big profits on both kinds. But well, let's go on to the interesting part, the one I bolded.

If big budget games are dying that's the fault of their respective publishers, if they are stupid enough to spend so much money on consoles (360, PS3) that don't have the necessary userbases to support these kind of games. Or just blame consumers for being not willing to spend more than $300 on a console, not Nintendo.

Big budget games can only survive if they are made for a console with a high userbase. To get a high userbase you need to expand on the existing markets and attract new consumers with a wide variety of software, the PS2 didn't become big because it only had big budget games.

So, in fact, Nintendo is doing quite the opposite of what you are implying, their strategy for market expansion helps 3rd parties to keep developing big budget games in the future. The Wii is helping the market as a whole much more than you want to believe.

 In history the consoles always were kind of expensive so that is not the problem.
The problem is that Microsoft and Sony have made a console that would push hardware,gaming to a next 
dimension while Nintendo just stays where they were. So nintendo is killing the future of gaming.