Nintendo Profit and Sales Data Blowout! Charts and loads of info!

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Mazzy said:

Tlozjb said:

NES - SNES transition: Super Mario World biggest name at launch, what coudl be consider a confusing name, failing Step 1 with the name and Step 3 with small launch.

SNES - N64 transition:  The majority of the steps were fufilled, but it lost the big 3rd party franchises, causing the slump in sales, specially from Japan, where going by data from here it was a huge 12 million drop, accounting for the majority of the drop between SNES - N64, since the other 2 regions did not drop much looking at the enw fierce competition from PlayStation.  This would be not fulfilling Step 4.  Aside that its main attractor at launch was only Super Mario 64.

N64 - GC transition:  They messed it up big time here.  A kiddy look and and fully akward commercials destroying Step 2.  The small discs that leaded to 3rd parties to go away even more, damaging Step 4.  Step 3 and the quality of its launch titles is up to opinion.

GC - Wii transition:  It was clear it was something new, fulfilling Step 1.  It was greatly advertized wiwth the "Wii would like to play" slogan, fulfilling Step 2.  Released with big names like Zelda, Call of Duty,, and Madden fulfilling Step 3.  It continued to get a good stream of games after release and attracted 3rd parties fulfilling Step 4.  Then as a extra it had a appealing.  

Wii - Wii U transition:  The complete opposite.  Name to similar to the last and seemed like a add-on failing Step 1.  Was badly advertized with the focus on the tablet and not the console failing Step 2. The biggest thing at launch was NSMBU faside of bad ports of AC and CoD failing Step 3.  Huge droughts followed failing Step 4.

So no, Nintendo hasn't been fulfilling all of those steps with every console.  With the handhelds maybe, but not the home consoles.

You sure do have a lot of excuses for Nintendo's continued incompetencies, and now they come to E3 with no conference and focus on one game, and Reggie just said in an intereview that specs don't matter. But surely they will get it right this time, right, right..? 

Call them excuses if you want, but they failed in certain keypoints, and so their consoles diminished in sales, we may not know hat would had happened if alll went well.  Maybe they would had still fallen, but not so drastically gen per gen.

Focus on one game that ended being the biggest talk of this E3 and had the attendees going full on wild for the first time in 10 years.

Reggie indeed said that, but this begs the question, he did say spec matter, but from what PoV was he looking it at from?  That it doesn't matter that NX doesn't match PS4 and X1 or that it doesn't matter if NX doesn't amtch Neo and Scorpio?  If the former, then it will go bad, but if the latter, which is the most probable seeing how he mainly mentioned Teraflops the main point of the Scorpio spec uprade, then he is right, NX doesn't need to be like that, it just needs to have good content, and at minimum match PS4 when it comes to power.