| Agente42 said: Wrong conclusion. The next sega is wrong because Nintendo has loads of money in her bank account. 10 billion when wiiu disasters occurring. For better or worse Nintendo is a stable company. |
Yeah, but do you remember Nintendo's stock and Iwata taking a 50% pay cut during the Wii U era? These were not good times for the company. Furthermore, there was a whole generation of kids during those years who grew up with Angry Birds not even knowing or caring about who Mario was. Nintendo's brand, investor confidence and savings all took a crap kicking during the Wii U era. Now I agree with you that Nintendo's savings prevented them from having to make cuts during the Wii U era which was huge because it didn't take away their ability to create amazing games and dig themselves out of the hole that they dug with the Wii U (unlike with Sega after the Saturn who couldn't be saved even though the Dreamcast was a great console). But if Nintendo even had one more generation that was less successful than the N64 coupled with the fact that the dedicated handheld market is now gone, I guarantee that they would be making smartphone games right now. In fact, Nintendo even started making a few smartphone games in 2015 and that was initially done to placate the demands of investors who didn't like Nintendo's outlook in the dedicated hardware business. For a publicly-traded company investor confidence is > cash in the bank.
Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Nintendo fan, the Switch has turned out be an incredible prodigy and I am very happy that Nintendo can continue enjoying the success that they have known since the 80's with Mario and Link being household names. That said, we should never forget about the Wii U era or be overconfident because history has a way of repeating itself. The fact is that Nintendo's successes have been amazing but their lows have gotten progressively lower over the years with their bum consoles (N64 - 33 million, GCN - 21 million, Wii U - 14 million). Whatever comes after the Switch cannot flop because Nintendo does not have an alternate platform like the 3DS to carry them this time. It was overconfidence that doomed the Wii U and Nintendo can learn from this and avoid it in the future. I never want to be playing Nintendo games that are made by a company that has had to sell out its reputation the way Sega has. Sega is an absolute travesty in my view because they were so good back in their day and a lot of their IP was as good as Nintendo's.
Last edited by Illusion - on 13 June 2020
