HappySqurriel said:
Desroko said:
Pristine20 said:
For those nintendo fans who fail to see the problems casuals bring to the industry, I remember reading an article where Miyamoto said it took a third of the team used to develop Zelda for the wii to develop wii fit. It also took much less time. Without a doubt, wii fit would eventually rake in way more profits than Zelda. Do you see where this is heading? What do you think the shareholders would want from Miyamoto next? Another Zelda or a more advanced wii fit? Corporate greed is everywhere. You may fail to see any fault in anything nintendo has done but even they would further sponsor this demographic shift by capitalizing on the ridiculous profits from licensing Dogz and Catz. I remember back in the day when the nintendo fans used to praise nintendo and condemn Sony because of nintendo's seal of approval that every game had to meet. Whatever happened to that? |
Unlike you, businessmen and investors are aware of concepts like diversification and opportunity costs. THey understand that these are not mutualy exclusive strategies.
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Don't forget market saturation ... Romantic comedies are far less expensive than big budget blockbuster movies and tend to have (much) higher profit margins yet movie studios continue to make both types of movies. If they only made one type of movie few of those movies would be all that popular, while many consumers would see not point in seeing movies.
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I would not use the Hollywood movie system as an example for your point. Hollywood studios gladly kill the souls of movies in order for better profit. Look at Die Hard 4 as an example. PG-13 movies have a larger crowd, but Die Hard is a movie that should not be pulling punches and upping the stunt factor. The vast majority of blockbuster movies are garbage aimed at the center of a target, not trying to create an engaging story. Luckily there are smaller studios out there to provide some engaging content.
