I put together this graph and tweeted it. It shows that while Nintendo's year has been horrible, it's barely made a dent on the overall income it's gathered over the past three decades.
Based on this, the claim that Nintendo could last for decades more making similar losses is certainly a realistic one.
I'm not even sure what you're trying to defend anymore or whether you're simply trying to be contrarian. What part of: "It doesn't matter what the fool thinks, it doesn't change that his opinion is wrong." do you not get.
It costs more money to make a more powerful console these days and development costs would go up as well. Games also take longer to make. We've already seen how Nintendo has struggled with hd development for the Wii U. How would it look if they were developing for the PS4?
That statement is irrelevant. As I said in that post, I'm not talking about fanboyism and whatnot, I am simply stating that it feels totally bogus that they did not increase their essentially "guaranteed buyers" by even a little bit, hell by the end of the 8th gen we might have found out that those numbers are down. It just seems bogus, that those that buy Nintendo hardware are dying, as in there's no growth, even with the 7th gen success. It just seems totally bogus. Usually it doesn't happen this way in toys/electronics, but here we are.
you know that's just a fantasy right. and i don't even mean it in the snide 'i'm glad your dream is one that won't ever happen,' but in the realistic sense that it's just something you want and not very realistic.
The audience Nintendo brought in weren't really traditional gamers. It's one of the reasons for the insane growth last generation. These people bought it for Wii Sports and Wii Fit, then maybe bought NSMB or Mario Kart due to playing it at friend's place or hearing about it from family. My tech illiterate aunt has both a DS and Wii. Both of these went into the closet after getting sick of them. Now she plays simple free games on her iPad and iPhone.
Didn't they try to push 3rd party software by pushing it with the launch window of the 3DS? Didn't they do the same for Wii U to an extent (Rayman being delayed really killed momentum)? They can't show too much initiative either, it's bitten them in the ass too many times before.
Then Nintendo have terrible workflows. If they're stupid enough to struggle making games again, then they have no future in gaming.
The people that gave them crazy success last time around perhaps weren't what you would consider 'Nintendo fans'. They were perhaps cats that wanted to play Wii Sports and Brain Training. Of course, those people bought a lot of other titles, but they evidently didn't get hooked enough to want more. The traditional Nintendo fan has been a dying breed since the NES, looking at the figures.
There is nothing for me to "get" here and I dont know why you are telling me like I am supposed to.
It is poor given their historical sales per platform in the same market in previous generations. Even if the 3ds ends up around 60 million units sold, that's a huge fall from the ds, gba advance, and Game Boy numbers.
Honestly, the fact that Mario Kart on Wii sold over 35 million units and that NSMBW, a core Mario game sold 28.65 million units (more than either Wii Fit version, or Wii Play) kinda made me think that they at least had some core exclusive-title growth that would stick around. Obviously, it appears I was mistaken.
Can't they hire translators?
I put together this graph and tweeted it. It shows that while Nintendo's year has been horrible, it's barely made a dent on the overall income it's gathered over the past three decades.
Based on this, the claim that Nintendo could last for decades more making similar losses is certainly a realistic one.