Kai_Mao said:
potato_hamster said:
Here's what people continue to fail to understand - it's not about not losing money at all. It's about maximizing profit. If it is more profitable to pour all of its resources into mobile games and making their games on other platforms, Nintendo will do that. If its more profitable to pour 50% of its resources into mobile games and 50% into classic Nintendo hardware and games, then Nintendo will do just that.
Nintendo will literally do whatever they think will generate the most profit for the company long term. They are beholden to shareholders to do that. Nintendo isn't about pride. It isn't about integrity, or making fun games for good prices that its fan will love., its about making as much money as possible for the company, and that is it.
If someone turns around tomorrow and offers Nintendo $100 Billion for all the Super Mario IP, Nintendo will sell it in a heartbeat.
It's the same reason why Crash Bandicoot is no longer a Sony IP. Sony felt when they sold the IP that it would be more profitable long term to sell the IP than to keep him in their stable. Because money. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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If that was the case, should have they jumped ship when the GameCube was not selling well? Yes, the times were different, but the PS2 sold really, really well and people thought Nintendo should've gone third party then.
And haven't anyone tried to offer billions for the Mario IP? Wonder how that went..
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These are different times. Nintendo has already confirmed that their biggest userbase is not on a Nintendo platform. That was not the case 10 years ago when they had a stranglehold on mobile gaming. Clearly they have lost that. The prospect of not making their own hardware and instead going third party has never been more lucrative or tempting.
