Nintendo having all their games available everywhere a better business than restricting them to a console?

[zorg1000]

Aeolus451 said:

zorg1000 said:

Like ive said, you cant just assume that Nintendo IP will do vastly better by being on PS/XB. We have seen many times that bigger install base does not automatically mean bigger sales.

Mario 64, Galaxy & 3D Land have sold around 10-12  million, thats on devices with 30-100 million install bases. Sunshine, Galaxy 2 & 3D World have also sold similar amounts.

Pokemon has sold pretty consistent for about 15 years now, the mainline titles have sold about 15-17 million while remakes have sold about 10-12 million & expansions have sold about 6-8 million. Thats on devices with 60-155 million install bases.

Animal Crossing has sold a similar amount on DS & 3DS, devices with an 80+ million gap.

Metroid II, Super Metroid, Fusion, Zero Mission, Prime 2, Prime 3, Hunters, Other M have all sold around 1.5 million give or take on devices ranging from 20-155 million. Prime is the best selling in the series on a 20 million install base.

With the exception of the first title, Kirby has sold a pretty consistent 2 million give or take on GB/NES/SNES/N64/GBA/DS/Wii/3DS.

The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess all sold about 7 million despite vastly different install bases. Zelda II, Link to the Past, Majoras Mask, Wind Waker, Skyward Sword all sold near 4 million.

Then we also have to take into account demographics. According to this site, about 3/4 of all retail sales on PS4/XBO come from the shooter, sports & action genres. Can we really expect the online shooter/open world action/annual sports crowd to start buying things like Kirby, Mario Party, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, Animal Crossing, Rhythm Heaven, Fossil Fighters, Paper Mario, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Yoshi, Captain Toad, etc?

I honestly dont see most Nintendo games having a big enough increase for it to be worthwhile. Ya some games like mainline Mario, Pokemon, Smash Bros, Zelda, Mario Kart might do really well but is that worth it if most of their titles see little to no increase?

it's not that complicated. Nintendo would have to adapt to the fanbases of the playstation, xbox and pc if it wanted their games to sell.  Focus on their mainline games (instead of so many spin offs and kid game shovelware) and create new IPs that better fit the other bases. 

Im sorry but thats very dumb, Nintendo is a company based around making family friendly products, saying that they should have a lesser focus on games that are kid & family friendly is like saying Disney should make Disney Channel appeal more to adults and the next Avengers/Star Wars movies should be rated R.

By saying that Nintendo should focus less on kids/families and more on "hardcore" adults is basically saying that Nintendo should cease to be Nintendo and who does that benefit? Nintendo fans lose out because Nintendo stops making many of the franchises that they love and Nintendo would then have to compete head on with all the companies that make shooter/sports/action games and then what is left for kids/families on dedicated gaming devices?

Now which games listed in my last post are "shovelware"?