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This has been true for at least 10 years but Nintendo could not react to it. Shame that such a huge content company was to get lost in hardware and old biz mode

by bahmboo 10y ago

This has been true for at least 10 years but Nintendo could not react to it. Shame that such a huge content company was to get lost in hardware and old biz models when the way forward was very obvious. Netflix does not build netflix boxes (I think).

k__ 10y ago
Didn' they? What about all the stuff they released, that didn't need Nintendo hardware? Like TV shows, movies, trading card games, merchendise, etc. They "just" didn't do mobile games...
serge2k 10y ago
A decade ago this december they shipped the Wii. 101 million units worldwide, easily beating the competition (84 for MS, 80 for Sony).
- bdcravens 10y ago
  You're comparing Wii with PS3 and Xbox 360, both of which had successful next-gen consoles released in 2013. Wii+WiiU in past 10 years: 113m, PS3+PS4: 124m, Xbox360 + Xbox One: ~94m.
  - douche 10y ago
    Wait, they've only shipped 12m WiiU's? That's... not good...
    - bdcravens 10y ago
      Yeah, and like only 200,000 over the past 3 months. They estimated they'd have 100m sales by now.
    - gambiting 10y ago
      There's no games for that console, and very few new ones are still to come out. I've got a wii u, but I still have the same games I bought in the year of launch - Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D World, Mario Super Mario Bros U - can you see a pattern here? Xenoblade is meant to be good but I don't have time for a 100h+ JRPG, and any other genres are avoiding the WiiU, if you want a first person shooter, a sports game, a racing game, you will go with the competition. Not to mention that non-mario Wii U games just look very poor when compared to PS4/X1.
  - serge2k 10y ago
    Oh okay, so it's not the last decade. It's the last 3 years. That's totally the same thing.
    - bdcravens 10y ago
      You totally missed my point. You were comparing the Wii to the Ps3 and Xbox 360, which isn't fair, since both of those consoles had dramatically reduced sales due to the PS4/Xbox One, not the Wii.

by bahmboo 10y ago

k__ 10y ago

Didn' they? What about all the stuff they released, that didn't need Nintendo hardware? Like TV shows, movies, trading card games, merchendise, etc. They "just" didn't do mobile games...

serge2k 10y ago

A decade ago this december they shipped the Wii. 101 million units worldwide, easily beating the competition (84 for MS, 80 for Sony).

bdcravens 10y ago
You're comparing Wii with PS3 and Xbox 360, both of which had successful next-gen consoles released in 2013. Wii+WiiU in past 10 years: 113m, PS3+PS4: 124m, Xbox360 + Xbox One: ~94m.
- douche 10y ago
  Wait, they've only shipped 12m WiiU's? That's... not good...
  - bdcravens 10y ago
    Yeah, and like only 200,000 over the past 3 months. They estimated they'd have 100m sales by now.
  - gambiting 10y ago
    There's no games for that console, and very few new ones are still to come out. I've got a wii u, but I still have the same games I bought in the year of launch - Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D World, Mario Super Mario Bros U - can you see a pattern here? Xenoblade is meant to be good but I don't have time for a 100h+ JRPG, and any other genres are avoiding the WiiU, if you want a first person shooter, a sports game, a racing game, you will go with the competition. Not to mention that non-mario Wii U games just look very poor when compared to PS4/X1.
- serge2k 10y ago
  Oh okay, so it's not the last decade. It's the last 3 years. That's totally the same thing.
  - bdcravens 10y ago
    You totally missed my point. You were comparing the Wii to the Ps3 and Xbox 360, which isn't fair, since both of those consoles had dramatically reduced sales due to the PS4/Xbox One, not the Wii.