most of the people here have no clue of what they are talking about, and in many way sound like a lot of windows user back in the past:
"apple would make a killing releasing OS X for any pc... i've really enjoyed apple operating systems in the past, but i'm not willing to buy a mac... too bad, seems like apple won't see any of my $$$"
1 - satoru iwata, president of nintendo, made the company glorious in the last years thanks to wii and ds. Because of how nintendo still work the only person who can fire him is Yamauchi, no board of investor can do anything about it
2 - because of the 3DS debacle Satoru Iwata cancelled his own bonus for this year, cutted his salary of 50%, and the salary of all the executive of 30%. The man knows what he's doing and many other CEO should learn something from him.
3 - last month NPD showed that this is the worst month for the whole industry in the last 6 years. Still the nintendo DS was the best selling console. In the month of July, seven of the top 10 and 15 of the top 25 best-selling software SKUs play on Nintendo platforms.
4 - the 9th best selling videogame in the US for july 2011 is... guest what? New Super Mario Bros (NDS). Not bad for a software 6 years old, selling still at full price.
Just like apple with it's app store nintendo makes money thanks to royalties for any game sold on his platform.
5 - Following the logic of most of you guys even microsoft and sony should just switch to iOS, because guess what, the company with less financial problems is Nintendo itself (speaking of the gaming department of course). To make a comparison the Xbox 360: 277K units sold this month take into account the free console given when you buy a laptop, so if you have to talk about doom and gloom for nintendo you better expand the concept to all the big 3.
6 - nintendo always makes money out of hardware. they do not sell their hw at a loss.
The only exception was for a brief period the NGC and that didn't kill the company. Stop selling hw would limit the revenue of the company itself. Why don't you ask apple to sell OS X for other hw?
7 - thanks to the numbers apple gave us we know that since the launch of the app store a total of about 1.4 billion dollar was the revenue of the whole thing. take off 30% because of the apple cut, take away all the sw that's not a game, and what you have left is less of what nintendo makes out of a single game. Last year DKCR sold more then 20 million copies WW at a retail price of 50.
8 - you have pretty much the same chances of seeing nintendo doing software for Sony or Microsoft platform as for apple.
9 - Core franchises like zelda and mario would play like **** on a touch screen without a proper controller. Those franchises cost years of development of entire teams. It's not possible to sell those games at the crazy prices of the app store. Satoru Iwata made a speech about how that can endanger gaming like what happend at the end of the atari era, when there was too much sw at low price, no one willing to pay the right price for sw and at the end no one was anymore developing compelling sw.
10 - all the people that bought a DS to play crosswords are probably shifting to cellphones, but the industry lived long before their arrival and will continue after they leave. Those people anyway don't contribute too much with software sales. Core gamers, who want to play a proper game with proper controls won't go anywhere.
11 - you have the same chances of seeing halo for iOS as to see mario.
ps: sorry for my english
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