Critical Gamer writes: While Nintendo have had a lot of success with the 3DS, they are struggling to sell the Wii U, even with the release of a top notch Super Mario game. So where did it all go so wrong, and what can they do to help turn things around?
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Decent article, but this is the same thing I said about them going 3rd party: They already said no. Thee won't be any mobile games anytime soon unless it's a demo. Unless they screw up WORSE than they are now, they're not gonna tell the people who develop hardware and work on hardware that they no longer have a job and they'll be working on something that might get old soon. Remember that less than 15% of mobile gamers invest money.
How can Nintendo turn their fortunes around?
#1 Do far, FAR better with their advertisement efforts.
The games so far, and coming up, are GREAT GAMES. They just need VIRAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Even the best games won't sell systems if they aren't hyped up a bit so people can get excited once they've seen the ads for them.
#2 Get more EXCLUSIVES from sources, and ANNOUNCE MORE GAMES MORE OFTEN.
They've got tons of indie support coming, but they don't advertise it much.
They COULD be getting sales for third party exclusives and stuff if they'd offer advertisement efforts for them too.
They're making it seem like they've got too little coming by keeping all the juicy projects close to their chests.
It's time to open the flood-gates.
#3 IGNORE ALL THE IDIOTS TELLING THEM TO DITCH CONSOLES AND GO MOBILE/THIRD PARTY.
Se-ri-ous-ly! Anyone who thinks ANY idea like those is a viable long-term plan for helping Nintendo survive another two or three generations, needs to get their damned heads checked.
Casuals would move on too quickly to the rest of the overwhelming amount of casual games on phones, so Nintendo would have too tough a time keeping their games relevant to these fickle and quick-moving consumers who expect short games instead of long-winded Mario games that take time to play through and complete.
Similarly, people who love the competition more than Nintendo frequently bash the company AND its games for being everything from "Stuck in the past" to "Kiddy" to "Out-of-touch" to "rehashed crap that never changes", etc etc etc.
Most of them would gladly choose something like a sequel to The Last of Us over the next Mario game, anyways. There's no way you'd see Mario 3D World outsell something like The Witcher if they came out near the same time on a system where third party sells best out of everything.
The other systems are not where Nintendo's fan base is and they are not where Nintendo would be able to get maximum profit, especially considering the fees they'd have to pay to get their games onto those consoles.
Nintendo's games would not sell to these people long enough to keep Nintendo alive. It's really just that simple.