What if Nintendo Doesn't Comeback?

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Kai_Mao said:

Chazore said:

CosmicSex said:
A lot of you guys have responded saying that the NX doesn't have to dominate to be successful and you are right. But it certainly can not sell as bad as the Wii U. THIS is what I am defining as a fail. If you think that the NX could take the Xbox One or PS4 thats fine. but if they ship another Wii U in terms of sales, what then?

The thread does not say that it has to do PS4 numbers. It just can't do Wii U numbers.

Then what would you call above Wii U numbers but nowhere near X1/PS4 numbers?, again that feels like a big rock and a hard place scenario and still sounds like it's bad either way. I mean just say they did better or slightly better than WIi U numbers, how long will it take before we have the same discussions where Nintendo might go 3rd party or might be doomed because either way we're forcing this on Nintendo for simply not toppling the other two and now we have their own current system thrown into the mix. I strongly feel that from all this there is simply no winning for Nintendo at all because even if they had slightly better numbers than Wii U we'll still find some area to complain about how bad it is that they are doing even despite them not doing Wii U numbers, damned if they are and damned if they don't. We talked about their catch 22 situation a year and a half ago and I feel we'll be right back to talking about that with the NX in terms of sales and support.

This.

It's like as if NX will be Nintendo's last chance at home console making. Sure they're not profiting like in the Wii/DS days, but they haven't lost as much as we make them out to be. What if NX sells only 20 million but gains a profit? Or a $200 million loss per year? As mentioned, we could all be senior citizens by the time Nintendo is in any position to file bankruptcy if they lose about $250 million per year starting at 2012. As of now, we don't know how much they'll spend on NX in terms of hardware.

They don't necessarily have to win 1st, but to earn profit. I mean, they did it throughout almost all of their 30+ years in the game industry with exception of 2-4 years, which says a lot considering they've been in third place for home consoles for 3 of the last 4 generations. Now with all their newest ventures outside of traditional gaming, who knows where this will go.

 

Look guys, you can live in a fantasy land all you want, but in the real world there are people called shareholders, who own the company and who's money Nintendo is spending. If Nintendo is unable to pay dividents and shareholders are unhappy, it's game over for Kimishima and someone else replaces him (and does what it needs to in order to retain high profitability). One of the biggest reasons for NX was not only the platform to save costs, but also the continuation of profits. I think Yamauchi accepted the ups and downs of new hardware release as being a part of the business, but the new shareholders may want a continuation, and a platform for multiple devices for the foreseeable future provides just that.