What do you think? I personally like it.
Your thoughts on the Nintendo Switch?
@jonez_ said:
@king_krown said:
I wish they would drop all the gimmicks, acknowledge MSFT & Sony are their competitors, actually try, and just make a great console. Example N64 or Gamecube. None the less, I only support these people for Smash & Zelda. So it's like "Eh."
The only way for them to stay in the console game is for them to offer something different and appeal to a separate audience, which is exactly what they're trying to do.
let me stop you right there.
as long as nintendo basically holds the rights to pokemon and mario games, they wil ALWAYS be in the console game.
period. (not saying they are thriving or much competition for PS/Xbox, but they are not going anywhere anytime soon)
Even to this day, every single pokemon gameboy/DS game they have produced sell well into the 10-15millions on their LOW end for the most recent installments, with some of the random Wii/GC/N64 games selling 2m+
and the big thing to consider, imagine with 15m sales of X/Y? that means theres ~ 15m 3ds/2ds sold to play it on as well. which doesnt sound like a lot but, with being a company exclusive, this means 100% of the profits for those consoles go to them. this is important when compared to games like GTA, where as GTA has sold 65 million copies, but thats split between Xbox360/PS3/xbox1/PS4/ PC. meaning the console side of the profit is split basically 3 ways, on top of the actual game profit going to mostly rockstar. so while theres 65million copies sold, only 40-45m of them have been for consoles(and that being split even further by Xbox360/1 and PS3/4) with almost 30m copies being sold for PC, meaning sony literally gets zero profit from those sales(where as microsoft gets some)
there are people who will spend 70-300$ just to play the pokemon games on a new DS , and people who will drop 100-200$ just for a wii for smash bros/mario kart. they are great games that double as a childs game for any situation where you have a child involved and don't want to have games like GTA playing. games like these are why nintendo will always be around, unless somehow microsoft or sony can get a good step into the portables/kids game market.
even the pokemon spin-off games, like pinball and mystery dungeons, have all sold well into 1-2million minimum each.
and this is ONLY one franchise(not even their most profitable total so far) that they have exclusively, and in total sales and revenue its still Surpasses GTA.
im not saying they are better then Xbox/PS or anything, but when it comes to consoles, while their profits arnt as big, and they don't have as many sales, they managed to literally grab 2-4 exclusive franchises that have managed to keep themselves as one of the largest video game companies in the world for going on almost 3 decades. they've grabbed the Niche of Young/teenage kids, family friendly and Rated E/T games and held it in a deathgrip.
if anything, no matter what happens with the Switch, they will still have the 2ds/3ds and the Wii they can fall back on to keep their company going forward. To be honest they are in a better position to test out the gimmicks then companies like PS(did you see the vita? it flopped and they literally dropped it and haven't looked back it seems).
if it fails? move on, if it doesnt? they will be reaping in the Extra profits on top of everything.
obviously for any serious gamer, PS/Xbox obviously are the better choice and won't even feel any pressure even if the switch does do good,
but for everybody else? casual gamers, parents, young kids, ETC would potentially love this and could be a big hit.
but thats just my opinion.
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