| Soundwave said: Nintendo's console decline in the 90s/early 2000s was masked by the Pokemon revival of the Game Boy and the sudden ramp up of the portable market which peaked with the DS it looks like. Smartphones/tablets really screwed Nintendo. They'd have nothing to worry about if those didn't exist, but I guess Blackberry would say the same thing, lol. That said I think Nintendo will make a fortune off smartphone apps over the next gen so much so that I think NX merely has to do "ok". If they can sell 60 million NX units, shared between the console and portable, even that would be "ok". |
I think that's a fair assesment; the declining console business was supplemented by other branches, hiding the failing console business, so to speak.
Nintendo have reached a point where their HW and SW can't sustain them any more, at least not when one of them is blatantly failing, and the second isn't doing great. Couple that with rising dev costs to produce games.... That's a hard spot to be in.
This is how I see their future business: mobile apps, amiibo (until the bubble bursts), QoL (medical equipment), movies, merchandise, lisçensing IP's, HW and SW. That should be enough to keep them profitable, I just wonder which portion of this will be the most lucrative.
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