NX game price if the library is unified?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Soundwave said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

A totally unified library, if it will happen, will mean lower (probably not too much) total revenue from games. But it will also mean lower dev costs for games that were planned to be both on portable and home console anyway, and higher sales for games that were usually planned only for a platform. Total HW sales, portable+home, could be lower too. But total profit margin HW+SW for Ninty and SW for 3rd parties could be higher thanks to the aforementioned dev economies and cost optimizations, so who knows, if Ninty really believes in the project, pleasant surprises could happen also for game prices, and even more if 3rd parties will appreciate it too.

 

 

I don't really even think it will mean lower revenue from games. 

Mario Kart 9 and Mario Kart 10 can be on the same system and sell to the full Nintendo userbase, instead of one selling to 4x the userbase of the other one. 

The current sales model Nintendo has costs them a lot of sales unless the console has some sales gimmick attached to it that can really move systems. 

You may be right, lower sales from the minority that not only own both portable and home Ninty console in a given gen, but also buy some games in both versions, could be outnumbered by increased sales of games previously available just on one platform, portable or home. Higher profit/dev costs ratio, multiplied by typically higher priced games than on mobiles could keep devs interested in doing them and help portable games resist the mobile attack long enough to gather the new gamers that starting from phones and tablets will eventually want deeper games and more versatile and complete interfaces, even a small percent of more dedicated gamers in the big sea of totally casuals could mean tens millions new gamers on a many hundreds, maybe billion sized market.