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Teeqoz on 23 January 2016
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zorg1000 said:
Teeqoz said:

 

For starters, over one third of 3DS owners are Japanes. I can guarantee you that most of those don't also own a PS3/PS4/360/XBO. So there's that.

 

The same EAD sub-divisions made Mario Kart and Nintendogs. Likewise for Animal Crossing and Wii Sports. However Animal Crossing, Splatoon and the Wii series aren't made by the same team, and the same for Nintendogs and Mario Kart. You don't have a single development team releasing multiple games a year. A single development team only releases one game every multiple years. The different development teams are overseen by the same senior staff though, but that's hardly the same as them actually being the same team.

Yes, in my scenario, the studios making Mario Kart, Smash Bros etc. would, in addition to the handheld entry, make a multiplat home console entry each gen. Like I've already explained, because it would most likely sell boatloads more than their hypothetical handheld project.

 

I don't see how 1/3 of 3DS sales coming from Japan somehow rules out the possibility of a large number of 3DS owners also owning PS/XB consoles.

Yes that is true but the same sub-division working on PS/XB games along with Nintendo handheld games could instead be multiple handheld games which would help sell Nintendo's hardware. We have no idea that Smash/Kart/etc. would sell boatloads better than new IP on their handheld, Splatoon is a good example of a new IP moving a lot of software and even helping out the hardware.

By having 100% of Nintendo's resources dedicated to a single platform, Nintendo can diversify which makes the hardware a more compelling purchase. If Nintendo were to stop making consoles but still make handhelds, they would do everything they can to make sure the handheld succeeds and would probably just release a Vita TV type device to satisfy people who prefer to play on consoles.

Releasing their games on PS/XB doesn't benefit their handheld at all while potentially hurting it.

 

It at least rules out the possibilty of about one 3rd owning PS/XB consoles. Furthermore, all you have to do is look at the demographics of the systems. The bestselling games on PS/XB are nothing alike the bestselling games on 3DS. Sure, I can't with 100% certainty confirm that most 3DS owners don't own a PS/XB system, because I don't have the resources to conduct market research like that (Nintendo has though...), but I can say that it's a lot more likely that a vast majority of 3DS owners don't own PS/XB than it is that a lot of 3DS owners do own PS/XB.

 

Once again, we don't know with 100% certainty whether their hypothetical handheld projects would actually sell massive numbers. However the likelihood that they will is pretty small, while the likelihood that core franchises like Mario Kart, Smash Bros etc. would see great success as home console multiplats is much much higher.

 

Yes, they would get a bigger library for their handheld by not developing any home console multiplats (though as I said, their handhelds would already get substantially more support than today), but that doesn't mean that their hardware would suddenly sell a lot better. They'd risk cannibalizing their own sales because they'd be releasing quite a lot of games, and they'd see their own softare competing with itself, eating potential sales from one another, instead of release a bit fewer games on handheld, instead releasing them on home console, where they most likely would sell substantially more than what those teams' handheld games would.