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oniyide on 21 January 2016
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wombat123 said:
oniyide said:
zorg1000 said:

 

It actually worked out pretty well for Nintendo, the drop from SNES to N64 sales was pretty miniscule outside of Japan despite the massive drop in 3rd party support.

SNES sales outside of Japan=32 million

N64 sales outside of Japan=28 million

N64 & SNES software sales are also pretty even outside of Japan with a much higher percentage of sales coming from Nintendo-published titles on N64.

Over 90% of the decline from SNES to N64 happened in Japan due to the RPG & fighting markets migrating from SNES to Playstation. And since my post was specifically on how to attract a western audience, the Japanese market is irrelevant to what I was discussing.

why cherry pick sales? WW they took a hit. thats whats important. Yes becasue Ninty actually had a library that was actual diverse back then. If its irrelvevant why bring it up? I didnt bring them up. And if it really worked out for them we wouldnt even be having this discussion, if it really worked out why did they sell Rare?

I just think Nintendo (NOJ in particular) suffers a lot from their hubris.  From what I know, they've never actually failed financially until this gen -- even in the Gamecube era they were still doing well so they never had to prioritize diversify in their software or even really depend on anyone other than themselves.  This gen is the first time I've seen them fail so badly that they took losses in multiple years (something Nintendo never does) and I just hope that it was a huge wake-up call to those at Nintendo that they can no longer hope to maintain the type of profits they're accustomed to while continuing to stubbornly try and do things their own specific way with little to no help.  All that being said, it's ironic that Nintendo fancies themselves as the Disney of video games when Disney's biggest strength is in their diversification.

This, they wish they were the Disney of video games, hell outside of a popular mascot Sony probably has that. They made money in GC era cause GBA helped them.