How can Nintendo make their games big again?

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spemanig said:

Volterra_90 said:

The question is (and this is an honest question since I really don't know much about it), does Nintendo has the money to do all of that? I agree with you, Nintendo's IPs are strong enough to be worth an AAA treatment, and maybe they'll sell a lot more. But there's a risk. Games like Destiny, GTA; movies like Frozen... have spent an insane amount of money in marketing alone. Marketing imo is what sells the most, but it's expensive as fuck. And I'm not really sure if Nintendo could aford nearly the same treatment. 

Their net worth rivals Activision's ($18m), almost triple's EA's ($6-8b), and absolutely eclipses Ubisoft's ($700m) for comparison.

Yes, they have the money, and then some. And they could make more. Like WAY more.

Apple is worth $700b. Disney is worth $100b. Nintendo can literally be both the Apple of gaming and the Disney of gaming at the same time. Nintendo can be that high, but you have to spend money to make money. I already think they are on their way to being the Apple of gaming with the NX. All they need is good branding and a good design for the hardware that looks simple and feels luxurious. But they are being a really poor representative for being the Disney of gaming because of how cheap they are, and I have absolutely no faith that they plan to change that outside of things like the theme park, their IP appearing in TV and films, the rumored BG&E2 rumor, etc.

Net worth? Do you mean market cap?

 

In which case, these are the real numbers: Activision 25 Bn $, EA 20.6 Bn $, Nintendo 17 Bn $, Ubisoft 3 Bn &

 

Also Disney is worth 162 Bn $, Apple is worth 600 Bn $. Nintendo can not be that high...

Furthermore, market can says nothing about how much a company has available. For Nintendo, that figure is somewhere around 5 billion. I mean, they can still certainly afford upping the budgets of their games and spending more on marketing, but they don't have 20 Billion or whatever.