| RolStoppable said: You are crazy. Imagine there was a Nintendo console with a dry release schedule at the start of a new year and Nintendo told you that the next interesting game you can look forward to is another Pikmin and that will come in August. Nintendo could have made a new game in a more popular IP, but the developers felt like making another Pikmin, so instead of a game that can push hardware and motivate other developers to make games for this Nintendo console, Nintendo opted to lead their console into demise because doing Pikmin is worth it. |
If this was the Wii U days where Nintendo couldn't afford risk-taking with niche games, I would agree. But it's not, this is Switch-era Nintendo. A company that has a far more consistent release slate now that 95% of their developments are consolidated to just one platform, with a console that regularly breaks sales records, and has software sales so good, that even most of their niche games can regularly pull 1-2 million copies worldwide. They can afford to make ARMS and Pikmin in-house currently. Like I said, you're argument would've made sense during the GameCube or Wii U days, where Nintendo need to stop screwing around and put out something that's guaranteed to move consoles at a time when they're not selling. But the Switch and its mainstays are breaking sales records each year.
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So you ask why Nintendo should make games that sell hardware. Because that has positive consequences all around. You've got a game that is desireable in and of itself, plus you get more developers make games for the console because the console sells well. I repeat that I am not against Nintendo making new IPs. What I am against is that Nintendo's top developers waste their time on IPs that have already proven themselves to be unable to reach the numbers that a healthy console business needs. |
Again, this argument would be sound for a console that's struggling to find an audience. But the Switch is already an established hit, there's not much of a need to mandate developers to try and make a system seller because the Switch already has plenty and sells consoles on its own as well.
