Pyro as Bill said:
I could easily see games like Mario Kart and BOTW selling 5m-10m if they released them on PC today. You could be looking at over $1 Billion right there.
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They made ~$250m from that online service they don't make a ton of money from.
In a single year.
At $20 instead of the standard $60.
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Hmmm, do you have a source for that? The highest number we've had released as far as I can tell is 10m current subscribers as of July. Which would be $200 Million a year, but that's best case scenario as it assumes all 10m will subscribe for an entire year, assumes all of them are paying (I got 1 year free with Amazon Prime, they also gave away subscriptions with some games.) and assumes none of them are using the $35 Family Pass that works for up to 8 friends.
So I'm not sure how they could make $250m in a year when the highest number of subscribers is 10m and a year ago they had 8m.
Regardless that estimated $200m (or $250m figure if that's correct) is still a tiny fraction of the best case scenario $2.3 Billion PS+ makes in a single year (38.8m @$60). So my point about Nintendo making far far less money from console services/third parties than MS/Sony still stands.
We also don't have to assume that releasing their games on other platforms would completely destroy their hardware sales. So they may not lose all of that $250m. I think they could generate more profit from releasing there games on multiple platforms, but really it's something that has too many factors to forsee.
Last edited by Barkley - on 22 January 2020