The NX will be a success. As the WiiU was.
"Gamers" on tech sites seem to think mature audience games built with cutting edge GFX engines running on the best hardware MS and Sony are willing to loose money on are what drives the industry.
Perhaps Sadly depending on your point of view that simply isn't true. In the real world Candy Crush makes more $ in a month then the top 10 Xbox/Sony titles combined.
The WiiU didn't loose Nintendo Money >.< Calling it a failure is hilarious... it added to Nintendo $ stores, obviously not as quickly as the Wii did, still it didn't loose them anything. In fact I would argue that over the life span of the WiiU on top of the $, they also gained a handful of very loyal third party developers... those developers making Nintendo style games, aren't the type of unloyal houses Sony and MS have to deal with. (who could decided to tweak a game for one of the other or release exclusive on either at any time if the $ is right).
MS has NEVER recouped their costs on a system... and Sony hasn't made money since the PS2.
If anyone thinks Nintendo would be unhappy with sales numbers = to the WiiU, to the point they would do something stupid like Sega did... well they are dead wrong.
Nintendo isn't looking to make the big Xbox/PS 3rd party publishers happy and wanna publish on NX. They will work with 3rd parties willing to make Nintendo like games sure... but they won't make the mistake MS and Sony have made and allow 3rd parties to ram terrible Royalty deals down their gullets. MS and Sony have been so busy beating each other up with publishers giving them sweet low royalty deals for exclusive launches and performance tweaks that they have carved away any potential profit. When they already sell the hardware at a loss for 3/4 of its sales cycle its not a recipe for success. Nintendo has a market... and it isn't a small one, they also have no real competition for their market.
The chances of MS bowing out of the game are still high.... if I was a MS investor based on their Xbox division, I would be dumping stock hard. Just when they finally get to a point where the hardware isn't selling at a massive loss they are going to go and refresh it with new parts that are likely going to put them back to counting losses per unit. All the creative accounting in the world (like hiding Xbox losses in a larger overall reporting unit) won't hide that fact from investors forever. MS is running out of actual profitable products that can be logically bundled in to hide the losses.
Nintendo was wise to stay out of the MS Sony knife fight... that sees them both racing to the bottom in regards to profits from developers. Their strategy building unique hardware and building on their in house software production... and fostering a handful of very tight third party Nintendo only publishers was very forward thinking. The Sony MS fight must end at some point... investors for both companies aren't going to continue allowing them both to SPEND Billions every year just to be in the fight.
"Gamers" on tech sites seem to think mature audience games built with cutting edge GFX engines running on the best hardware MS and Sony are willing to loose money on are what drives the industry.
Perhaps Sadly depending on your point of view that simply isn't true. In the real world Candy Crush makes more $ in a month then the top 10 Xbox/Sony titles combined.
The WiiU didn't loose Nintendo Money >.< Calling it a failure is hilarious... it added to Nintendo $ stores, obviously not as quickly as the Wii did, still it didn't loose them anything. In fact I would argue that over the life span of the WiiU on top of the $, they also gained a handful of very loyal third party developers... those developers making Nintendo style games, aren't the type of unloyal houses Sony and MS have to deal with. (who could decided to tweak a game for one of the other or release exclusive on either at any time if the $ is right).
MS has NEVER recouped their costs on a system... and Sony hasn't made money since the PS2.
If anyone thinks Nintendo would be unhappy with sales numbers = to the WiiU, to the point they would do something stupid like Sega did... well they are dead wrong.
Nintendo isn't looking to make the big Xbox/PS 3rd party publishers happy and wanna publish on NX. They will work with 3rd parties willing to make Nintendo like games sure... but they won't make the mistake MS and Sony have made and allow 3rd parties to ram terrible Royalty deals down their gullets. MS and Sony have been so busy beating each other up with publishers giving them sweet low royalty deals for exclusive launches and performance tweaks that they have carved away any potential profit. When they already sell the hardware at a loss for 3/4 of its sales cycle its not a recipe for success. Nintendo has a market... and it isn't a small one, they also have no real competition for their market.
The chances of MS bowing out of the game are still high.... if I was a MS investor based on their Xbox division, I would be dumping stock hard. Just when they finally get to a point where the hardware isn't selling at a massive loss they are going to go and refresh it with new parts that are likely going to put them back to counting losses per unit. All the creative accounting in the world (like hiding Xbox losses in a larger overall reporting unit) won't hide that fact from investors forever. MS is running out of actual profitable products that can be logically bundled in to hide the losses.
Nintendo was wise to stay out of the MS Sony knife fight... that sees them both racing to the bottom in regards to profits from developers. Their strategy building unique hardware and building on their in house software production... and fostering a handful of very tight third party Nintendo only publishers was very forward thinking. The Sony MS fight must end at some point... investors for both companies aren't going to continue allowing them both to SPEND Billions every year just to be in the fight.