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Soundwave on 24 August 2016
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PwerlvlAmy said:
Soundwave said:

If they can get 20 million from Japan, then getting 30 million from North America + Europe + misc. other markets should be doable ... this is still a sizable decline from the 3DS. The 3DS has sold basically 20 mill a piece in Japan, Europe, and NA. 

20 mill from Japan is critical though, they need to maintain that bastion of power as a bedrock for their hardware business. They need to throw everything at the Japanese market, Dragon Quest XI, Pokemon, Monster Hunter V, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Yokai Watch ... just all out market assault on that territory. Hell I think Final Fantasy VII Remake even could be on NX (likely downgraded in graphics, but it'll be portable which is a big difference maker for Japan). 

The loss of the Wii U segment doesn't really hurt much because a lot of those players weren't Wii U-only owners, I'd say probably at least 60% of the Wii U fanbase owned a 3DS too, and since Nintendo wasn't really making a profit off the hardware in a big way ... not much of a loss there. 

yeah im going to have to take a ''believe it when i see it'' approach with the NX atm. It does not sound like something that will have a broad appeal to most gamers.  Don't see how it appeals to the western side by telling them ''here playing this downgraded game of xb1/ps4'' for things like DQXI. They'd just opt to get the PS4 version instead and ignore NX

You can't throw your PS4 in your bag and play it on the subway or school yard though so NX is pretty functional unique. I actually probably would buy FIFA or NHL if they offered it on the NX over the PS4, there's never really been a "real" console sports game on par with consoles, graphical fidelity isn't so important.

In the West, Nintendo's main aim is to likely get kids who are being raised on tablet gaming right now. 

This isn't really I don't think about appealling to 20-30 something males. That's Sony's turf and likely nothing Nintendo was going to do was ever going to change that. 

Not to mention I don't think people really realize how huge the loss of Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa was ... Nintendo's never really been relevant to the Western core gamer since those two left and NOA became basically just a distribution house. The hardware doesn't matter if there is no leadership vision behind a strategy. GameCube was not popular with "core" male players in the West either, even though the hardware was pretty good and I think a large part of that was because Nintendo's Japanese division was basically allowed to call all the shots.