| javi741 said: I want to educate myself and find out the reason Nintendo is making more revenue & profit with one console instead of two with a console and a handheld. While the Switch has been successful, in the past fiscal year it sold only 21.3M units when multiple times in Nintendo's history Nintendo sold around or over 21.3M total console units with the GC and GBA or the SNES and GB but had far less revenue. I want to know what's giving Nintendo more revenue & profit with no major increase in total console sales. |
Two platforms means more resources required to support them especially in today's era for example you'd need to develop two installments of a franchise instead of the one so development costs increase and better hardware as time goes on means more effort and costs come into play, you'd need double the marketing efforts and R&D etc... For reference Sony who are good at supporting their platforms were unable to give both the PSP and Vita much support at all as it's like double the effort in one gen.
A single platform means all efforts are in one ecosystem reducing operating costs significantly so while having two platforms may mean more hardware is sold in total the costs and efforts of supporting two platform eat into what you make back.
