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jonathanalis on 17 August 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
So you have to pay the subscription AND pay for the games? Not sure if that would work too well. Big Nintendo fans would buy the Nintendo console regardless so they're not relevant. But your average consumer... Well just imagine somebody seeing the new Mario Kart or something is out and thinking 'yeah, that could be fun, I'll buy it' goes to the store and it's $60, no problem there. But then +$50 subscription fee and all of a sudden the game is now $110. For an industry which makes a lot of its money through impulse buys I can't really see that working.

 

Ka-pi96 said:
jonathanalis said:

not paying subscription. subscriptions are like 50$ a year, a nintendo console is supose to be 250$ or less. So, makes sense buying a hardware.

Anyway, killing NX or not doesnt matter here. They dont need to sell NX, the great revenue come from selling games. the console is only needed for selling games, if million of consumers pay 50 a year and also get the games, would be much better profit-wise for nintendo than selling consoles.

I don't think you'd get millions of consumers with a $50 a year subscription fee.

Although even if you did you'd get so many more sales without that fee in which case they'd be better off going 3rd party for real rather than doing it that way. Plus they wouldn't then have to spend millions on console R&D, production and marketing either.

You have pretty good points.

If millions of consumers that wanto to play nintendo games wouldnt pay a 50$ fee and prefer a console, they would buy a console. So, if they dont pay the fee, they would buy the console. if it wont work, nothing would change.

the advantage of that instead of going thirdy party is developing games only for one plataform, suposing the emulator would work well on some other plataforms. The other is keeping the fans and the legacy of 'nintendo games are only for nintendo consoles', which is very important. but know you can rent a nintendo console in your PS4 neo. is still exclusive to nintendo consoles, virtual or not.

But yeah, going third party would be more profitable, but is against their filosophy, so thats why i proposed a middle way.