| UltimateUnknown said: I could see them making tons of money from exclusive marketing deals for their biggest franchises as is the case with most publishers today. In fact Nintendo could easily become one of the biggest if not the biggest 3rd party publisher with their brand recognition on systems with much bigger install bases than their own. |
Its not just install base, its also audience and demographic that determine how well a game sells. Like i pointed out a few posts back, close to 80% of PS4/XB1 retail software sales are from the shooter/sports/action genres. If you also include Racing Sims & Western-RPG than that number comes close to 90%.
A whole bunch of Nintendo IP belong to genres that arent very popular on PS/XB, platformer, puzzle, party, simulation, strategy, miscellaneous.
Their big mainstream hits like 2D/3D Mario, Smash Bros, Mario Kart & Zelda could increase in sales but games like Mario Party, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Rhythm Heaven, Animal Crossing, Paper Mario, WarioWare, Kirby, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Tomodachi, etc? I dont really see these games doing much if any better.
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