Ruler said:
zorg1000 said:
Hes right, Sega, SNK & Atari never had nearly as many big sellers as Nintendo.
Yes in arcades they sold more than Nintendo, SNK also always was a smaller company and always released games as third party company dueto the high price of Neo Geo Hardware. But ounce they gived up hardware of their own they werent the same anymore this is true for any former console manufactor
Capcom & Konami only have a couple huge franchise. Metal Gear Solid is basically Konami's only huge franchise.
yeah sure Pro evolution, dance dance revolution, Castlevania, Yu Gi Oh!, Silent Hill, Suikoden, Gradius, Contra, Parodius, Rumble Roses are nothing
None of these companies have/had close to the number of huge games Nintendo has.
Again Arcade.
Do you also realise that part of the reason nintendo sells so much software is because people are pretty much forced to buy them? They spent 300 dollars on a Nintendo console so of course they have to buy at least 10 games to make it worthwile and we all know that Nintendo consoles consist of almost only Nintendo games.
If they would give up their hardware and their fanbase would be exposed on Playstation or PC entireley they wouldnt care about every Nintendo game anymore. Maybe they will buy the next Pokemon, Zelda or Mario but they sure wouldnt care about anything else coming from Nintendo. Do you really think people would buy something like Pokken or Animal crossing or fire emblem on other platforms?
Not to mention they would lose roaylty fees and their games would be charged with roaylties on each copy.
Again history has proven that every former console maker went out of shape and became just a former shadow of itself.
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For one, arcade is 100% irrelevant to the discussion, so im just going to ignore that part.
Barely any of those games listed are huge, how much did the best selling entry of those games sell? Ill give you Pro Evo, that was pretty big back in the PS2 era, but the rest? 1-2 million sales is not huge.
Im talking about games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Mario platformers, etc. Games that sell 5+ million every time and have sold 10+ million. Even spinoffs of these games sell in the millions.
And people are forced to buy Nintendo games? Possibly worst argument ever, people buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games, not the other way around.
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