SKMBlake said:
Don't forget these titled crossing the 1 million mark are the 3rd party titled published by Nintendo, not in genral. Like Monster Hunter Rise isn't part of it. |
That's not how it works. All the games that aren't listed in Nintendo's financial report by name are self-published by third parties, such as Monster Hunter Rise and Minecraft.
| Soundwave said: 3.) The XBox 360 did start regularly outselling the Wii once they released Kinect, their take on the Wii concept, which must've been a magical coincidence I guess. Switch and PS4/PS5 are not directly comparable as they're very different types of hardware, one is a home console only the other is a hybrid console with a large part of the appeal being it can function as a portable device. The SNES and Genesis were both stationary home consoles that were directly comparable, to make a relevant comparison to that era, you would need to compare a stationary Nintendo console to a Sony or Microsoft one. If Nintendo released a home console with no portable component, you think they would easily put up 120+ million sales and dominate Sony? Obviously probably not. The competition in stationary consoles is much more fierce, with the Genesis, Sega for at least a few years did a tremendous job marketing it, selling it, and even against all odds pulling a Mario-competitor out of their ass in Sonic. People who shit on the SNES for "losing" marketshare to the Genesis don't understand how hard Sega came at them, frankly Microsoft could learn some lessons, they are too passive in competing with Sony, Sega was incredibly in your face about it. And then they started making dumb management decisions which killed them. Which is basically to say hardware only goes as far as good management decisions will take it, a hardware concept or spec sheet is only one part of the equation. 4.) Are you speaking for all Nintendo shareholders now? Some wanted, some wanted that, some wanted 800 other different things. Shareholders being upset when Nintendo's business was falling off a cliff isn't shocking or surprising. Nintendo does what they want to do, but I'd also bet "reaching some arbitrary hardware number so Nintendo fanboys on the internet can have meaningless bragging rights" is not even on their list of priorities, certainly not anywhere close to stock price or shareholders. Their current internal focus at this stage is likely the Switch successor, that is what their management has to be most focused on because if they are not making the right decisions on that now (honestly probably before now, going back into last year if not sooner), that is the future of the company and it will impact their business massively in 1-2 years from now. |
3. The PS3 also began to regularly outsell the Wii at the same time, but the PS3 had nothing as popular as Kinect. This has been explained to you a million times already, but you just won't admit that the Wii's release schedule from 2011 onwards was very weak for a console as highly successful as it was. There were holes in the release schedule that stretched months at times until something of note released again (first and third party combined, so I am not only talking about Nintendo games). The Wii's dry release schedule coincided with Microsoft's Kinect run, and the lack of new Wii games was the cause, not Kinect like you mistakingly believe.
4. I am speaking of the shareholders that asked precisely these questions about smartphones in Nintendo's Q&A sessions with investors. This is recorded history. None of them ever asked about the creation of a synergetic effect where smartphone applications will rise the awareness of Nintendo IPs and then sell the games that all remain exclusively to play on Nintendo's own hardware.
Your strawman argument ("reaching some arbitrary hardware number so Nintendo fanboys on the internet can have meaningless bragging rights") is also pretty funny, because you happen to be guy who throws out all reason whenever the topic is about more powerful Nintendo hardware, going as far as repeatedly suggesting that Nintendo should prematurely put an end to a successful platform for no other reason than your personal desire to have more powerful Nintendo hardware.
You were also all on board with the Wii U and having the Wii killed and look how that turned out: What you believed was the right business decision proved to be devastating whereas I said that Nintendo is doing it all wrong. Similarily, you made thread after thread during the Wii U era to make suggestions how Nintendo would become successful again, like collaborating with Microsoft on a console where Microsoft makes the hardware and Nintendo the software, emulating what Sony does and a myriad of other puzzling things. Ultimately, Nintendo didn't follow any of your ideas and that turned out to be the right way, even though pre-Switch launch you were convinced that Nintendo wouldn't occupy more than a niche space in the console market. That is to say that your track record on the topic of business isn't any good.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
