oniyide said:
by Ninty's own accounts you would be wrong. You just dont cut the price of a system you just launched beause its a success, hard to spin that one. Dont know why the Vita was brought in, as the situation would ahve been largely the same anyway. America is not the world, im judging by sales as a WHOLE, and as a whole it has gone down. 3ds is actually on track to sell less than GBA and it will be on the market longer. SO its not even returning to its former glory. I know all that, and that was due to it being essentially an overclocked GC, thats what is was. That one is on Ninty and it doesnt help that there standard controller would be a no no for those types of games. So your Capcoms and Namcos wouldnt even try and i cant blame them. Tvs.C was ported from arcade as the board they used for that game is the same in Wii so realy easy port(to bad servers are down) none of those games were essential. Smash for Wii wasnt even played competitvely, not like Melee or even the new one is. Tvs.C you're giving that game too much credit, its not like it sold gangbusters, and you cant even play online, damn near all the fighting games on last gen systems are still being played. Ok and, what now? they are getting beat left right and center. I get it, they tried something and it worked. if im being honest i dont care how much they made, cause at the end of the day its not like the money translated into better games, the system kept getting shovelware, the motion controller tech kept sucking and when they did actually did improve it they barely supported it. Now we have Wii U...(which i actually like) |
It's still a much larger success than any would be predicted. It was certainly miss priced though when it launched. Yes it will come up short of the gameboy advance most likely. It really depends on how long Nintendo waits for a new handheld system and how well the 3ds is supported after a successor has come into play. I'm perplexed at you suggesting the 3ds has been on the market for longer than the gameboy advance. Gamebox advance was discountinued 9 years after it's launch. Nintendo handhelds typically sell a lot of units after the new version has already launched. The market as a whole for dedicated handhelds though is returning to the level in which it was at in the Gameboy Advance era. The Vita will end up accounting for most likely 16 million or so sales. And the 3ds will end up at 70 million plus. Another mistake Nintendo made with the 3ds was the launch lineup not having any of Nintendo's top franchises in it. You have to account for the fact that in the Gameboy Advance days Nintendo had no real competiiton. Sony jumping in had an effect on Nintendo this gen as the casual audience is now gone.
I'm not sure what you're referring to in terms of Nintendo getting beat left, right, and center? 3ds is destroying vita and yes the wiiu is getting destroyed but overall Nintendo will likely still sell about 90 million units of hardware this generation and will own roughly 50% of the software sales on their own systems.
It's very easy to attack someone when they are down. Nintendo has done a lot of things differently from what I would have wanted. But in all honesty they've done very very well for themselves. This generation they made all the mistakes there is to make and they are still surviving and still back in profit. Nintendo is the one company in gaming I don't ever worry about. If they end up tranisitioning out of hardware one day because they've had a bunch of bombs in a row they can easily become one of the most if not the most profitable 3rd parties in the world. And the reason for that is the quality of games they make has never been an issue.
