| Eagle367 said: I have to add that the idea of only selling as many consoles as possible has clouded gamers judgement. Sure Wii u sold too little but it was still overall profitable for Nintendo. Sure the profit was less but still. Think of it this way. Nintendo can literally keep selling consoles as much as Wii u for generations to come and if they keep making profits then they will still be going strong |
Errrr.... no.
Yes a company can make a profit of selling only 15M consoles over a period of 4/5yrs. But thats not a sustainable market strategy. And if it were nintendo wouldn't have bothered with teh switch so early or even be saying they want to do wii like numbers..
In addition, having sold as many consoles as possible kinda ensures you get a lot of third party support. Which typically translates to more console sales and you guessed it, more profit.
But hey, if you think it workd for nintndo to sell 15M consoles per generation (a number even less than what they accomplished with the NES back in the 80s) then yh.... good luck to them I guess.
Think of it this way, Nintendo as a company is too big to be sustained from whatever revenue it would get from 15M console per generation.
