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Out of the last 4 Nintendo consoles, only the Wii has been doing well compared to the competition at the time (by a small margin), with the others only selling
by dtech 10y ago
Out of the last 4 Nintendo consoles, only the Wii has been doing well compared to the competition at the time (by a small margin), with the others only selling 10-30% as much units.
I think they see the writing on the wall and want to diversify.
- snaky 10y agoThe risk is huge. You can do crap Mario for mobile, and nobody cares and you got bad PR and sales of consoles go south. You can do great Mario for mobile, and everybody got Mario for free and sales of consoles go south. Running between these scenarios is tough.
- maruhan2 10y ago"everyone got Mario for free" huh?? So you are suggesting that all the mobile games are not earning money
- snaky 10y agoComparing to the price of console games plus price of console it's free.
- jpreiland 10y agoIt's still important to note that newer gamers are becoming more and more unwelcoming of non-free or at least "high" priced games. I remember loads of people throwing a hissy fit about Overwatch being $40, despite it being a very well polished AAA title. I don't know how much longer the game industry can expect its target audience to spend $60 each on piles of games. Things have been trending towards freemium for long enough that it almost seems weird when the game that everyone's playing is not free(ish). My point being, if enough people aren't buying console+game anymore, would the opportunity cost of doing it on mobile instead be that bad?
- ekianjo 10y agoYou can do nothing and have only your eyes to cry down the road.
- snaky 10y agoDon't throw your IP to mobile market is not 'do nothing'.
- bla2 10y agoThe 3DS is a huge success too.
- freehunter 10y agoThe 3DS is a success, but I wouldn't say a huge success. The DS was a huge success, and has sold 100 million more units than the 3DS. The 3DS is a huge success compared to the Wii U though.