80+ Million Switches Need to be Sold in 5 Years or it's a Failure

[potato_hamster]

Soundwave said:

potato_hamster said:

Yet, that's the model they rocked for decades. In fact, since they made a handheld, this is the exact model they have deployed. I remember when I got my original gameboy, I had to go out and get a new copy of Super Mario Land even though I had Super Mario Bros for my NES. Why should we expect much different now?

Besides, who says they have to lock these games away? They just need to put them into a different form factor. People would just have to buy two copies of the game if they want to play it on both platforms, just like they've done for decades.

The reason they did in the past is not neccessarily because they wanted to "force" people to have to buy different hardware. I'm sure Nintendo wold have loved to have 100 million players be able to play Mario 64 for example ... it would have maybe doubled or tripled the sales of the game. 

It just wasn't possible then. You could not have the architecture/hardware neccessary for the higher end Nintendo experiences where their majority audience (portables) was. I'm sure they would have liked to have had Mario Galaxy on DS too. 

Unified platform in the long run will actually make Nintendo more money than the old model. 

So because it is technically possible now, we're supposed to expect Nintendo is just going to stop with a business model that works for them for decades. I fully agree that such as decision wouldn't be very consumer friendly, but people need to remember that Nintendo isn't actually very friendly to their consumers and never have been. They are driven by profit above all else. If they think they stand to make more by making a handheld that doesn't accept Switch cartridges, then they're probably going to do that.