Nintendo spend $527M in R&D in the FY'15 according to Technavio

[johnsobas]

elektranine said:

jason1637 said:

How much a company spends on a console doesnt really determine how successful it will be.

Look at the wii.

Also we don't know how much the spent on the NX. We only know that 627m was spent on r&d in 2015.

Yes let's look at the Wii, let's look at the Wii:

The was released and sold well for a period of time and then didn't sell nearly as well. There was a mass hysteria surrounding the Wii propelled by the media, such as CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, etc, promoting it as a "must have" device. Basically it was cool to own one. Many non-gamers bought this device just because their friends had ones. Nintendo reported alarming statistics such as less than 40% of Wiis were ever connected to the internet and very low software attach rates.

This obviously didn't happen with the Wii U and almost certainly won't happen with the NX either. Besides I don't think anybody wants another Wii with its low attach rates it failed to attract much hardcore games from developers and what was on there were poorly designed motion controls ala 3rd party shovelware.

 

Besides the main premise of this thread is to discuss the R&D costs of the NX. Many say the NX is supposed to be more powerful than the PS4 but with such low R&D Costa it likely will not. See my above post on how people are overstating Nintendo's true console R&D costs.

this is probably the worst post i've seen in a long time.  Yeah, i'm sure Nintendo wouldn't want to make 10 billion + dollars again, that kinda sucked didn't it.  Most successful Nintendo console ever and most profitable console of all time.  It's cool though, lets just make up attach rates that are false and call it a day.