2013-08-28, 10:33 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:I don't know if you're joking or not. The market went to smartphones and tablets, not the vita. When it's missed every target nintendo has set, and is significantly behind the ds at an equivilant time (3ds is at 32.5m, ds was nearing 47m), then yes it is underperforming compared to what nintendo thinks it should be selling.
Last i checked (stupid u browser means no pdfs so can't be sure right now) the 3ds is set to be tied for worst performing major nintendo handheld in sales. Major means no virtual boy before someone says it.
The mobile market is pomegranate. With many competitors and an open market you have a bunch of people competing for short entertainment bursts with an addicting pay-to-win model (a la Candy Crush). Do you honestly believe that the mobile market is well enough to dwell into with the Android having an open source market that anyone can enter and competitors nearing up at every chance they get? It's not some miracle market where people will automatically make millions of dollars because of brand name, there are multiple people competing there while the Console market is taken up by a majority of three corporations. But you propose for them to go into a moderated market where they have no controls of the profit, where over 7 million people have effectively rooted their devices, and where at least 10% of the iOS phones are jailbroken (couldn't find newer data but I'll be surprised if it didn't increase in 4 years) hindering their sales of products. The mobile market also makes little to no profit. The most active game series on the market that I know of, Angry Birds, with over 1.7 billion downloads has only made approximately 195 million dollars in sales this year but only 71 million in profit yet Nintendo could easily make much more money than that through a successful medium to deliver games. Hint: Nintendo made 73m in profit despite the pomegranatety sales of the Wii U and has about $14,309,400,000 in actual revenue. But no man, I'm surely joking. The mobile market is a fucking money bank, for sure.
Arrol Wrote:Reading this makes me wonder how long will the great Nintendo will last for the future...
It'll last, at least as long as they don't pineapple up with another Wii U failure. Spoiler: The mobile market is pomegranate and anyone who believes people make loads of money off of it is 1) not a developer and 2) a complete idiot.