Could Nintendo realistically do this

[zorg1000]

KLXVER said:

zorg1000 said:

But you just said their big games like Sonic, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Castlevania could remain multiplatform so give me some examples of the games that are big enough for Nintendo to spend millions/billions on.

I was talking about Nintendo, not consumers. How is Nintendo paying for old games to be exclusive on their platform thinking ahead?

Your numbers make no sense, in this hypothetical scenario sure Konami, Sega, etc are probably making more money on these games but why in the hell would Nintendo spend ~$1 billion/year on a bunch of 20-40 year old games? People aren’t going to buy Nintendo hardware or subscribe to Nintendo services specifically for these games so it doesn’t make them any money.

Well you are kinda contradicting yourself here. You say its anti consumer to make these bunch of 20-40 year old games nobody cares about exclusive to Nintendo consoles. So if they are basically worthless, then Nintendo could spend way less on them then. Give them 1 dollar per subscriber if they are that worthless.

Thinking ahead is when consoles are faded out and streaming becomes the norm. Instead of subscribing to 5 services, we would have 1. I think they would be stronger together than on their own.

There is no contradiction, you’re just misunderstanding.

In general retro games sell to an existing user base, basically nobody is buying a console, PC, tablet or smartphone to play these old games but they might buy some old games on devices they own.

They are “basically worthless” in the sense that people aren’t going to go out and spend a few hundred dollars on a piece of hardware and a few hundred dollars for a subscription over the course of the systems life to play a bunch of games from the 80s/90s. It’s just existing Switch owners/NSO subscribers who would be playing these games so Nintendo isn’t really making any money off them, especially if they are paying hundreds of millions to Capcom/Square/Sega/Konami.

By making these games exclusive to a single platform, you’re not making the platform more valuable, you’re just limiting the amount of people who have access to these games.

Last edited by zorg1000 - on 26 September 2023