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Nintendo's operating profit for full FY 19/20 is higher than Sony(G&NS), Capcom, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Konami, and Sega Sammy (and some by a lot!)

Mozza

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We’re not even talking about unit sales here. The subject is Nintendo is one of the most profitable companies in gaming with their current strategy. Not good enough?

There was no price to pay for Nintendo. The Switch comes off the massive failure that the Wii U was. The truth is that the market for Nintendo was shrinking and the Wii was a flash in the pan, capturing a massively casual crowd that these days mostly play on their phones. It’s not the benchmark for what Nintendo did 2 generations later.

Correct the Wii and DS were like lightening in a bottle, at the time motion control and touch screens were a new thing, fast forward to the Wii U and 3DS and a ot of the casual market had moved on to smart phones and tablet devices, Nintendo were then making two consoles to sell around 88 million units or so of hardware, no wonder they combined it with the Switch, as this console will easily outsell both of these combined, will have a much higher software ratio, and will save Nintendo the extra cost of another machines development.
 
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Thirty7ven

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It is for Playstation. No Playstation can be considered a 3rd party box. Yes, you can obviously play 3rd party games on it, but they've all had their wealth of 1st and 2nd party titles.

Landmark exclusives are ingrained in the history of Playstation. Goes back to Final Fantasy VII.

It doesn't matter where the exclusives com from really.
 

oagboghi2

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It is for Playstation. No Playstation can be considered a 3rd party box. Yes, you can obviously play 3rd party games on it, but they've all had their wealth of 1st and 2nd party titles.
Absolutely they can. Most of the biggest franchises on PS are 3rd party
 

Astral Dog

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No surprise because Switch is doing really well, no point in comparing first party games on an exclusive console to third party on multiple systems.

For example Capcom has been doing really well too, but Nintendo gets more profit by being first party. Their games are also even more evergreen and get price slashed less.

Nintendo has a huge advantage because they have a popular system/userbase they can control + quality mass appeal first party games + a bunch of third party support.

The only companies that could come close are Sony or Microsoft, but their systems are on their last legs with next gen excitement.
 

Astral Dog

Member
Something insane to think about is the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sales. There was a thread recently showing something like 25M sales.

Nintendo is the developer and publisher of that game. When a copy is bought on their digital store, they get essentially 100% of the cut. When a physical copy is sold at retail, they get, what? 70%? I don't know.

The point is, 25M copies at $60 is $1.5B and they get an absurdly high percentage of that revenue. And it's a fucking port of a Wii U game, so it cost them next to nothing to develop for Switch. That's one single title in their Switch lineup.
Third parties have a huge disadvantage sharing their profits.

Nintendo has huge gains when they get a hit in their hands thats why they won't consider going third party unless its their very last option it changes their whole business model.
Fanboys sugesting they should become third party are very short sighted
 
Wii and NDS era - The most profitable ever recorded for gaming
Switch hybrid era - Second only to Wii and NDS era and about to surpass PS4 in term of profit accumulation in just half of the lifetime.
Gamecube and GBA era - Third and made more than the entire PS1, PS2, and PS3 era combined
SNES and GBC era - Great
NES,VB, and GB era - OK
3ds and WiiU era - disaster at the highest order as both consoles gimmicks failed to take off on the market, big ass controller and glasses-free 3D.
 
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