When the PlayStation home console is at its worst, it loses $5 billion despite getting all the third party support.

When the Nintendo home console is at its worst, it is still profitable despite being shunned by third parties.

Now do the math. If Nintendo had decided to give away GameCubes for free after things went downhill, how many could they have given away, if they ran their business at a $5 billion loss?

$5 billion divided by $100 is 50 million.

I think this is a super exciting time to be a Nintendo fan, really a fan of video games in general. The Wii U will be an excellent system. The best since Super Nintendo I believe.

To answer your first question, I do believe exclusives are no longer the norm. But this only helps Nintendo I think. Their IPs are the strongest and most profitable, and no one on the face of the Earth can support them outside of Nintendo.

As far as the second question, there are many ways to make a game low-production and top-quality. The problem is this: while it's easy to define low-production, it's tough to define top-quality. There might be people on this site that hate Colossus (I hope not!) and love games you or I think are garbage.

In terms of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus...in many ways those games are one-of-a-kind and can probably never be recreated. What you're looking for, I think, are games that are minimalist yet immersive, short on story, text, and music, but long on emotion and ambiance. And those are truly rare. I suppose Braid could fall into that category.

Team Ico and Fumito Ueda are miracle workers. They discovered something special with those two games. We may never see something like them again. Until The Last Guardian, of course :)

It says this guy is a master troll, but he makes excellent points.

May i also point out to the PSVita as an example of Sony's worse? Less fandom and more logic pls. Busines is all about marketing and profitability.

happyd:

"Copy paste as in Copy-Paste of Indiana Jones? What about Golden Eye on 64 then that is pure copy-paste of James Bond?? Please explain."

ninetailschris:

Already answered the "Xenoblade" I said it was great but it's not a system seller. That's fact.

[HD] "Would you recommend the same thing to Monolith before they set out to make it"

Recommend to person and saying Nintendo needs it to have sucess to different things. If nintendo never released the game it would have done nothing to the wii.

[HD] "Another important question, do you believe that even though a game doesn't sell insanely, that it still bring support value to the console so it can in turn sell more HW-dependent SW (like Mario Kart, see my post above to Mr Khan)?"

Most people who bought Xenoblade already owned a wii and mostly were Nintendo fans who bought games Nintendo trademark games like Zelda. 

"@underlined. Do you realize there are people who like [putting down the controller to watch a cutscene (esp. if it's good)]? Do you realize SotC barely has cinematics and is almost all in-game epicness?"

I was talking about God of War or Uncharted.  If you look you see I meation them not SOTC. Looking forward to new mario looks like there trying to bring back the feel of SMB Land. 

You not liking a game doesn't make your opinion objective. The game was rank very good and many people love the game. 

I probably don't have the same taste as you seeing as your mostly a xbox fan if I remember correctly.

That's a long post about personal taste, so there isn't much to say about it. You like those Sony games you mentioned in the OP (although I am not sure if you really play Gran Turismo), you have your reasons for liking them and because of this you want Nintendo to make such games as well. I understand that. You've made similar threads in the past (about what you want from Nintendo).

But... let's stick to things that can be measured objectively. In your previous post you said this (emphasis: mine):

So I asked you what these exclusives are. You didn't answer.

@ninetailschris.

Section regarding "Copy-Paste":

Please read my questions and please explain.

Section regarding "Xenoblade" and its business purpose:

So, Xenoblade was useless from a business perspective and should not be encouraged by an advisor, if you were to suggest something to Nintendo. Do I understand this correctly?

Section regarding "Putting down the controller":

@bold. Okay, I was just making sure you were aware that the argument didn't apply to SotC.

Also, I was hoping you would answer underlined.

" "Copy paste as in Copy-Paste of Indiana Jones? What about Golden Eye on 64 then that is pure copy-paste of James Bond?? Please explain." "

The only thing I remember from Golden Eye was the multiplayer. I wouldn't dream to defend the game story-mode because it was crap imo. But the multiplayer was great. But it's not a game I considered the best ever or even in my top 20. Most people I know quit playing the series after that one. The multiplayer sold the game not the single player that's for sure. 

"Do you realize there are people who like [putting down the controller to watch a cutscene (esp. if it's good)]"

I'm not talking one or two times I'm talking about it becoming common to put it down like both did. It being good depends on peference of how many times the average person is willing to keep watching cutscenes. But I read an article somewhere where most people skip shooter games cutscenes because of the average person not caring.  If I can find a link or post I will.

"So, Xenoblade was useless from a business perspective and should not be encouraged by an advisor, if you were to suggest something to Nintendo. Do I understand this correctly?"

In technical terms it made money but it isn't necessary/ or beg to make sequal or make more the series when others do millions more/ or just a million more. But from fan side it would great for those jrpg lovers and fans. I mean like F-Zero on gamecube it undersold according to nintendo and we never saw  on the wii because of it even though many people loved it. There is no reason business wise to make a F-Zero even though fans love it because it would not bring in the money. That's how business works. Nintendo needs to make games fans like that ACTUALLY sell very well.

It says this guy is a master troll, but he makes excellent points.

May i also point out to the PSVita as an example of Sony's worse? Less fandom and more logic pls. Busines is all about marketing and profitability.

But don't you think that even if the games don't sell too well, that they still increase the value proposition of the console, pushing it into more homes, leading to more sales of games that are affected by the popularity of the console (e.g. Mario Kart)?

@Copy-paste. You mentioned that UC is a copy-paste of something, what were you referring to?