Soundwave said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Soundwave said:
I think asking NX to stop the bleeding from the tablet market is asking for too much.
Apple/Google have poisoned the well by getting people accustomed to free casual games, now Nintendo can't make money off those with their old business model.
And what's worse is tablets are getting cheaper and cheaper, now you can get a decent tablet with a nice HD display for $100 ... sometimes as low as $79 .... how do you realistically compete against that? In three years we're going to have what? $50 tablets?
Kids and casuals are being inundated by a product that's basically being given away for free. It's not fair but what can you do.
NX's main priority is likely to stay profitable. There's not a lot you can do about erosion from smart devices, it's like being hit with an earthquake followed by a tsunami ... you don't even have a chance.
If they can hold at 50 million portable NXs and 15-20 million console NXs .... that should be enough to turn a nice profit.
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If Nintendo can preserve the huge attach rates of their first party, they won't have problems even with an userbase of 50m. Imagine how well MK8 would have sold if it its userbase had the size of the 3DS one. Now imagine that for all of their games.
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Exactly that's why they *must* destroy the segregated software model they have now. They're likely only make 1/2 or 3/4 of the money they should on these Wii U games by wasting them on the tiny Wii U userbase. They need to get those big games to their main audience which is stuck on the 3DS side. The way they operate now is grossly inefficient, imagine a movie studio releasing their biggest budget movies in the smallest/most limited markets nationwide. That would be crazy.
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The only question I could see in a hybrid market is the pricing. Usually home console games go from 49-60€, while handheld titles go from 39-45€. I suppose Nintendo won't try to make their handheld crowd suddenly pay 20€ more per game, so they either sell all their titles at handheld price, or they price every game differently (which would be great for new IPs or smaller titles, specially if they put them around 30€).
