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Kyuu on 24 November 2025
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HebrewGamer said:

Nintendo is the only company with the ability to have a console war. No other company has the IP muscle to make console gaming work. The only way games other than Nintendo games are selling is by being on every platform known to man at an 80% discount.

Which is why Nintendo games will never go multi-platform. Please stop saying they will because they made some Mobile games. Putting your games on Mobile and using your IP to make mobile games ARE NOT THE SAME THING. You will not legally be able to play Age of Imprisonment unless you have a Switch 2 and they're going to war with the darkweb to make sure the only place you can legally play their retro library is on NSO..

Nintendo expanded into cinema and animation way back in the late 80s with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show and the Super Mario Movie. The only difference between Nintendo today and Nintendo in the late 1980s is their expansion into those realms worked today when it didn't work back then. Nintendo has always wanted to be the new Disney, and they're well on their way to that now.

The console market is shrinking because Nintendo is the only player in town with their competitors going a different direction. everyone but Nintendo has a strategy which deprioritizes console sales to focus on software sales, which is where the real money has always been anyway.

1. Nintendo can't be the only one to have a console war. Because "war" requires the existence of an opponent lol.

2. "The only way games other than Nintendo games are selling is by being on every platform known to man at an 80% discount" is objectively false and silly. PS5-era Sony possibly makes more money per copy sold than Nintendo does, and the vast majority of their software sales come from their own consoles. But Nintendo's output is far greater in quantity, cheaper to develop, and sells a lot more.

3. Never say never. Anything can or will happen at some point.

4. Platforms generally make sooo much more money than own software. Recent Microsoft and maybe Tencent are the only relevant platform holders prioritizing own software over platform sales.

5. Nintendo, Sony, Valve, Apple, and Google are all about "platforms". Nintendo being more reliant on own software compared to the other 4 is actually a double edged sword. Because if their own software quality or sales degrade, the entire platform would suffer. Sony and Nintendo both have things that the other doesn't. Nintendo is more self-sufficient, but Sony doesn't need to match them as long as they dominate in 3rd party sales. The main purpose of Sony's software is to help keeping you locked in their platform where you would then spend on the ocean of 3rd party content which gives them a nice 30% cut. So far they're succeeding despite PC support diminishing the platform appeal.

6. The console market isn't shrinking unless hardware sales is your sole metric.