Nintendo DS and Switch are the second and third most sold consoles ever, respectively. Gameboy and GB Colour comes in fourth of you count them together. Wii is sixth or seventh depending on if you group the above.
I think people like their consoles.
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dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
I know it’s not happening, but I’d love it if Nintendo went the way of Sega, and just made games. They’ve always been hit and miss with their consoles anyway, it’s the games people love. Just fuck it, start releasing games for multiple platforms and focus on what you’re actually fucking good. Pipe dream, I know
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Oh I know they do great on some (most?) of their consoles, but I still think they do better at actual games than they do at consoles. Also, aren’t consoles almost always money losers, anyway? Like, they take a hit so that they can sell more games, which actually make them the money? Or is Nintendo the exception to that rule or thumb?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
They’ve had some flops…Wii U, DSi, Virtualboy…but they ain’t no game.com. Way more hits than misses in the console realm.
yonder@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I imagine Nintendo could make a tonne selling Zelda games for PC for 1.5x what they normally charge, simply for performance and controller compatibility.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Right?
If they hate emulators so much, why aren’t they selling native x86 versions?
Owljfien@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
they could even sell a VM image as they’ve proven it still runs better virtualised on other machines than it does native on theirs
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Don’t switch games already cost more than PC games, I kinda doubt people would be willing to pay even more.
amelore@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Depends on your country but switch games range 50-70 € and pc games are more like 10-100€ but with ones comparable to Switch games mostly 30-60€. So yes mostly, but they’re not that far off that they would definitely do poorly.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I don’t think a lot of people would buy e.g. BotW for 100 bucks.