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mountaindewslave on 12 August 2016
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ArchangelMadzz said:
RolStoppable said:

Players =/= customers. That's a crucial difference.

For a company like Nintendo who has so many highly regarded IPs, there's more money to be made as a console manufacturer than as a third party.

That is very true, and is great. Well it would be if Nintendo were making it. 

Sony are making more money as a manufacturer than they would be going third party. Nintendo probably aren't in that boat. They're currently making these AAA console titles and selling to 13 million potential users because they're having trouble getting people to buy their hardware. Games are no problem, everyone loves nintendo games. It's the hardware that is very expensive to R&D and produce. When they can elimate that completely and sell to an audience 10x bigger.

We'll see what hapens with the NX of course.

I love how you make an asinine argument based on ONE Nintendo console that is heavily regarded (even by its producers) as flawed in conception and marketing.

The Wii U is NOT the norm, and the 3DS indicates that. The market is still for them, and the casuals still love Nintendo stuff. its just a matter of making a logical system, either something fun and new OR something more streamlined.

Also you seem to have a flawed line of thinking that harrdware sales always equal profit. During the PS2 era, in which the system BROKE RECORDS, not only did Sony lose money somehow in some years BUT Nintendo made more profit from the GAMECUBE.

The point is that hardware numbers alone don't automatically equate to success.

The odds are Nintendo's next home console does massively better than the Wii U. Until the Wii U every Nintendo console fairly easily broke 20 million. And their handhelds always do well.

 You seriously don't understand how much money Nintendo has made in the past from things like accessories and (frankly) gimmicks. They excel at it and they're not going to suddenly stop.

going third party equals splitting your software profits and being more constrained. for a company like Nintendo with a kajillion popular IPs its just not necessary or logical. I mean Nintendo on their own probably have collectively as many well known characters/games than Microsoft/Sony combined.

 the Wii U generation is the only time in which Nintendo has ever had periods where they weren't making money. You don't flip the script when like 2/30 years had a hiccup, especially when you're financially  in fairly great shape