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« on: February 25, 2003, 12:48:27 PM »
It pisses me off every time someone uses the "Nintendo makes more money" ploy when they realize Nintendo's sales are dying. You wanna know WHY Nintendo makes more money in videogames than any other company? It has nothing to do with "family values" or lack thereof- it's the GAMEBOY! The Gameboy, now with the Wonderswan being dropped by Bandai, has almost literally NO competition. The GBA is the fastest selling console in history and I believe it's matched the PS2 although being out for a year less. Just about *everybody* has a Gameboy of some sort, whether it's the original, Color, or Advance. Developers would have to be crazy to ignore this GIGANTIC user base, so they develop a ton of games. Most of them suck, but Nintendo gets licensing fees on every single one. THAT'S how they make all their money. I bet Nintendo's profits from the Gamecube are a joke when compared to the profit from the GB/A. I'd also bet Sony makes a LOT more off of the PS2 than Nintendo's making off of the Gamecube, and soon MS will be making more off the XBox or it's predecessor. Get it through your thick skulls, people, that Nintendo's money does NOT come from the Gamecube. Just because they get a bunch of money off of the GBA doesn't mean they're gonna pour all that money back into a console that's making very little profit. If Nintendo intends to keep it's home console *alive*, it had better learn that 3rd-parties are what matters. Nintendo can continue making their top-notch 1st and 2nd party games, but they need to hunt down 3rd-aprties as if their success depended on it. If you look at any very popular home console, there's one major trend- IMMENSE numbers of 3rd parties. This holds true for the Atari, the NES, the SNES, the Genesis, the PSX, and now the PS2. All had incredible 3rd-party support. In comparison, the Saturn and N64, for example, did rather poorly and had very little 3rd-parties (and don't try to tell me Nintendo made more money in the N64 era than Sony- nearly all of that was from the GBC). Nintendo needs to diligently grab 3rd parties, preferrably 3rd parties with VERY big selling franchises. That's not to say Nintendo needs to drop their mantra of quality, they just shoudln't elt that mantra interfere with getting 3rd-parties (because licensing is really where all the money is made). Luckily they're attracting some big name Japanese 3rd parties (Namco, Sega, Capcom), but they need more western developers (Rockstar, EA, etc). I've heard rumors Nintendo has some sort of deal with EA, but I don't nkow how much truth there is to it.
Oh, and in terms of sales, I believe Nintendo's 3rd everywhere except for Japan, in both consoles and software. I could be wrong though.
"There is a lesson to be learned here. If these analysts knew all the answers to these questions, why aren't they running multi-million dollar successful companies? Because those that can, DO. Those that can't, play armchair quarterback."
And if you're so sure they're WRONG, Rick, why aren't you running your OWN multi-billion dollar company? To know that they're wrong, you must know what's RIGHT, and yet you work for a *free* Nintendo fansite, Rick, while blindly defending a business that is obviously fumbling in the home console market. I'm not saying Nintendo's doing *bad*, but they could be doing so much better. At the momemnt, Nintendo's an underachiever if I've ever seen one. While I do think that it's not our place as gamers to really worry about sales statistics and of the such, I also don't think we should be *denying* that in terms of home consoles, Nintendo has been digging itself into a hole with grossly incompetent marketing and business recently, and have only recently started climbing back out.
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It's horrible, and I will personally bash in the skull of every single person at 4Kids found working on a Zelda movie. I'm convinced they all spawned on damp locker room floors and have the IQ of travel soap dishes. I wouldn't trust them with anything sharper than a pair of safety scissors much less a Zelda movie. A god, strike me where I stand lest I am to be subjected to this torture!
My family's not poor or anything, but Digipen *is* a private school, so they need higher tuitions to operate. Unfortunatley their higher tuitions are way out of my league, especailly when I have to factor in out-of-state fees and apartment costs (it's not cheap living in Washington, especially Redmond).
I may some day, though.
