| Intrinsic said: First I will like to thank you for speaking objectively. This is a very touchy subject to most people. With the Wii.... yes nintendo made games for it. As they d fr all their platforms. But it sold primarily for motion controls. And primarily to the casual crowd. And alt of companies not just nintendo tried to partake of that crowd. A troubling thing however is if you look at the overall game output of nintendo platforms. This ca usually be tied directly to how successful they were. eg... DS had 4000 games. 3DS had 1700. Wii had 2800 games. WiiU had 367. To put it into perspective every console that has old upwards of 80M has had more than 1000 games made for it. With the best consoles havin as much as 2500+ games made for it. This is the basis of my argument as to why i say the NS cannot do this on the back of nintendo software alone. Right now the NS is at round 100 games. |
Your numbers are laughably wrong.
First of all, here are the actual lifetime numbers for physical releases:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/finance/historical_data/xls/number_of_titles_e1803.xlsx
And here are the number of physical releases after each console has been out for seven fiscal quarters:
DS Japan: 213
DS America: 135
DS Other: 125
Average: 157.7
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2006/060724e.pdf
Wii Japan: 169
Wii America: 283
Wii Other: 270
Average: 240.7
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080730e.pdf
3DS Japan: 166
3DS America: 146
3DS Other: 157
Average: 156.3
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2012/121024e.pdf
Wii U Japan: 58
Wii U America: 99
Wii U Other: 91
Average: 82.7
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140730e.pdf
Switch Japan: 172
Switch America: 234
Switch Other: 232
Average: 212.7
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/181030e.pdf
Switch is second only to Wii despite the explosion of digital games over the last generation.
Also, what happened to arguing that the form factor is what sells the console, not the games?
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Intrinsic said: So the real question is that is this hybrid console thin that new market? And how big is it? This is why its hard making comparisons of nintendo platforms and how well they did in the past; they all usually bring something different to the table. But we can compare form factors though. There are really only like 15 to 20M die hard nintendo fans out there. People that will buy a nintendo platform no matter what. Probably a lot less really. Going off the performance of the WiiU. So the NS will sell not because of nintendo games (people just end up buying those after they have bought into whatever new form factor nintendo is pushing) but rather sell on the novelty of its hybrid nature. |
