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zeldaring on 09 June 2024
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Soundwave said:
zeldaring said:

I don't think it's all about games it's about games, advertisement and brand power. Nintendo games could not save N64, GC and wiiu, yet there handhelds never fail. Playstation has brand power in the home console space their worst selling console is 90 million and even though Xbox is doing everything they can and have all the games you talk about everyone is buying Playstation 5.

For 3rd party IP like Fifa/FC, NBA2K, Fortnite, Madden NFL, Call of Duty, GTA, sure. Sony/MS' own games don't matter that much. 

GameCube and Wii U were also frankly under different Nintendo management and under very different market conditions that have changed considerably by today. 

The market is frankly simply more amenable to Nintendo today, a lot of the "I'm too cool for Nintendo" bros grew up and realized they were being stupid and have come around to buying Nintendo hardware again realizing childhood is meant to be fun and they want to have that experience for their own kids. Popular culture has mellowed out in general, no one cares what music you listen to or which clothing brands you wear, the hyper try hard-ness of the 90s/2000s has come and gone. 

A console like the GameCube today IMO would perform a lot better, 20 years ago I remember people laughed at something like Animal Crossing whereas today that's suddenly "cool" and being talked about on talk shows and Tiktoks and Youtube influencers love it. 

You forgetting that Nintendo handhelds have always sold amazing even  to this day most adults I know don't care for the Switch. Even my 2 nephews that owned one have switched to PC gaming and now no longer care for the next switch it's gonna be very intersing to see how switch 2 does I think it does 90-100 million only.