| Kyuu said: As someone who once viewed gaming PCs as a waste of money, I now consider PC the best platform by a very noticeable margin. And a lot of console gamers are starting to feel the same way (provided they can afford a decent gaming PC). Xbox selling as good as it is despite every 1st party game going PC day and date, and Sony inevitably growing bigger by accessing the PC playerbase with their partial-support, will undoubtedly get Nintendo to consider partly-supporting PC. If it works for Sony, I don't see why it wouldn't work for Nintendo. Drip feed, monitor the market, and adapt accordingly. Hell, not even MS with its weaker 1st party lineup (so far) and relatively abrupt all out PC support is negatively impacted. I don't know why a lot of people assume Nintendo supporting PC would spell its doom when Series X/S are doing great even with far less unique elements that distinguish them from PC. What does Xbox offer that PC doesn't apart from power per buck? If it doesn't hurt Xbox with no exclusives, it shouldn't hurt Sony with its timed-exclusives. If it doesn't hurt Sony, it shouldn't hurt Nintendo. There is just no way Nintendo won't attempt to support PC "IF" both MS and Sony see a significant growth in revenue and profits. They'd be leaving too much money on the table. Sony expects their 1st party software revenue to more than double by 2025, and I think they might. Nintendo won't just look at that increase and act like nothing happened. They will want to access this playerbase as well. |
Most people don't buy high end PCs, they purchase basic ones for working and browsing. AAA western games and few Japanese ones need high end PCs or PS5/Series to run, so people would need to buy a specific hardware to play those
With Nintendo is different. A smartphone can play Animal Crossing. Nintendo software could potentially sells insane amounts if their games were available on PCs because any mid tier PC can play their first party. However, while software sales potential for Nintendo is endless the hardware purchases would decrease drastically because their hardware would become redundant
I can see Nintendo profiting well enough with software compared to hardware (imagine Mario Kart selling over 100 million copies on PC) to justify a change in their business model to become a software publisher akin to Blizzard, but the question here is they clearly don't want to. They pride themselves for being a console maker and as a console maker they need their games out of other platforms.
