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TalkBack / RE:Iwata Talks About Online Games
« on: July 05, 2004, 08:23:19 PM »Quote
Originally posted by: rholderQuote
Minna no (Hot Shots) Golf for the PS2 sold better with the offline original compared to its online sequel, claiming it's "proof that customers do not want online games."
So let me get this straight...Nintendo says that since a version sold better than another that nobody wants the lesser selling version? While my thoughts might bring up an extreme example, the basic rule applies:
Lets say Pokemon Fire Red sells 100,000 units more than Leaf Green....That must be proof that customers do not want Leaf Green...
All I am saying here is that just because something sells less that another doesn't mean its not desired, but that it just isn't desired as much.Quote
don't only 10% of the tiny(relativly speaking) x-box audience use xbox live? The majority obviouslly don't care about online other than for email and research.
Like it or not, the Xbox is as -- or more-- popular here in America than the cube, so I will ignore your tiny audience comment. While the figure is a relatively small (more than 10% though) number, all those users of Live did purchase the service as well as every game they play on it. As everyone knows that MSoft has lost money on the service as a whole, (a) some sources say its not as much as you'd like to believe and (b) they will be prepared to launch a solid money-making service come time for its new system.
/rant
The cube isn't the be all and end all of gaming for me, and yes the cube does have an even smaller audience, it doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of the people with a xbox don't go online. It also doesn't change the fact that a large percent of such a tiny audience doesn't mean jack. It also doesn't change the fact that over a two year span Microsoft has bled over two billion dollars(of course Live wasn't totally responisble for the entire loss). Microsoft could lose that much every year for the conceivble future and still be profitble, Nintendo can't. Also MS has been flogging live forever it still hasn't reached the majority of gamers and with the ho hum online games they have it never will. It will take a major app which justmakes gamers just jump up and want to go online. I just don't see MS being able to ever get more than 15 or 20% on live, I mean it's just the poor mans pc. Nintendo proably hope to be more than just the poor man's pc when they go online.
