Current Events > It seems like Nintendo does a successful system than a less successful system.

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M-Watcher posted...

IIRC, the Wii U was one of the only times Nintendo was selling at a lost, at least initially. Otherwise they always price things to be relatively affordable for the masses while also not producing at a lost.

They are also famously reserved in their budgets, so nearly every game profits. Breath of the Wild was one of their most expensive games and they mentioned they had to sell 2 million to break even. That's it. Compare that to how many studios think 5 million is disappointing and that paints a stark picture about budget management.

Yes. Their stuff is almost always cheaper to produce and they sell at the same price as others and the price stays that high for a lot longer. I found twillight princess selling for 45 bucks like 2 years after release. Another consoles game woulda been down to atleast 25 by that point

Switch 2's success will be determined by the games that get released for it. If Nintendo can get two good games at time of release and followup with a few more in the first year, it'll take off.

CassandraCroft posted...

Excuse me whilst I laugh at this garbage.

NES, Snes amazing? Er nope! Oh are you refering to the two console that got slaughtered for sales, graphics, games the lot here in Europe by The Master System and Mega Drive?

N64 and GameCube duds?! Er nope especially The GameCube. Never ever diss the best console Nintendo has ever done in The GameCube. I loved and adored that little purple box and I miss it deeply. It had better graphics and gameplay than the PS2.

Wii, Wii U and Switch amazing???!!! Sorry but I can't contain my laughter. The Wii may have been alright but it's motion controlls were terrible. Thank goodness lots of games gave you the option to play with the GameCube controll pad or Classic Controller as IMO even Nintendo's own gaming department could see that the motion controlls were bad.

The Wii U is Nintendo's second biggest failure only beaten by The Virtua Boy. Tell me how the hell does a company go from selling 120,000,000+ consoles to only 18,000,000 with The Wii U. If it hadn't of been for the 3DS Nintendo could very well have gone under. Stupid confusing name, bad console design and no third party support cost it.

Nintendo seems to have recovered with the Switch. Can't really comment as I know virtually nothing about it.

Lol.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Yes. Their stuff is almost always cheaper to produce and they sell at the same price as others and the price stays that high for a lot longer. I found twillight princess selling for 45 bucks like 2 years after release. Another consoles game woulda been down to atleast 25 by that point

Yeah BOTW only went on sale the year before TOTK came out.

JTsyo posted...

Switch 2's success will be determined by the games that get released for it. If Nintendo can get two good games at time of release and followup with a few more in the first year, it'll take off.

TOTK upgrade probably. They should launch with Odyssey 2 to really crush the sales.

All nintendo has to do is make switch 2 be like switch one but better. Literally don't change anything else and they will be winning for another 10 years.

Man. A lot of people here don't seem to understand that having a lot of good games =/= good sales. The Gamecube sold way less than what was projected. They had a ton of unsold stock and had to reduce its price TWICE during its lifetime. It's believed that because of how poorly it sold, Nintendo gave up on trying to have the best specs for their systems and instead focused on gimmicks to make them stand out from Playstation and Xbox.