| zippy said: Between Wii U and 3DS Nintendo are selling software to a combined user base of around 80 million. If Switch was to sell less than that how would you perceive that?? |
What does it matter if Nintendo still makes money? I mean they're making good money right now off a 3DS that's shipping like 8 million a year, a dead Wii U, and just mobile.
So even in a "bad case scenario" of say 40 million Switches ... they'd probably still make a lot of money as long as they don't sell at a loss, sell plenty of software, and will have other revenue sources like mobile and movies and theme parks to buoy them.
I mean yeah obviously higher sales can be better, I'm just saying as an actual Nintendo gamer what's the real benefit here? The Wii and 3DS had solid to great hardware sales and still have relatively shit for developer support in both cases, so the whole idea that user base automatically equals great developer isn't true. So we basically got nothing there.
So the second thing then I guess is we should feel bad because Nintendo isn't making money ... except Nintendo has shown themselves to be able to make lots of money even with less successful hardware. And really nothing to worry about there either. Nintendo is a small company relative to the money they pull in, as such unless they take stupid risks like big money losses on hardware, they'll generally always make a profit even with a lower userbase.
