Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

Dear Nintendo

Please release a new Advance Wars.

Thank you.


I do like the concept and I hope Nintendo can get their crap together to make it a success it deserves to be. While I wouldn't really use it as a mobile device, I can see it being handy if and when I needed to go away on a long trip.

As for 3rd parties they will only support it if there's enough interest. The sad part is most of them won't push it to the limit and will just use a port of PS3 game.

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

What would it take for Nintendo to go third party? Surely there's tonnes of money in it for them to massively increase their consumer base without investing in r&d and console development.

Or even say they released one game as a third party developer that was advertised as a one time only thing. Imagine them releasing a mario game (Odyssey, 3D world, galaxy etc) cross platform, as a way of saying "this is what you're missing out on". That would drive sales of Nintendo consoles through the roof.

It's a pretty interesting question.

A recent Call of Duty game sells between 25 and 30 million units across all platforms.

Bloodborne sold 2 million copies. Uncharted 4 sold 9 million copies. A multi-platform game like Doom has sold 3 million copies. A lesser known (but still really awesome) game like Dishonored 2 does not seem to have sold too many copies at all.

Super Mario Galaxy sold approx 13 million worldwide. Mario Kart for Wii sold around 36 million. There were around 100 million Wii consoles sold though.

Mario Kart 8 Wii U sold 8 million. Smash Bros on Wii U sold 5 million. Mario 3D World sold around 5 million also. Looks like New Super Mario Bros U sold around 5 million. They only sold 13 million Wii U consoles though.

On top of that Nintendo probably makes quite a bit of money from other merchandising and they've just teamed up with Universal Studios theme parks to bring Super Nintendo Land to Orlando and Osaka.

I think the key would be in how many more copies of these games could Nintendo expect to sell if they went third party? How would that work out long term for the company overall?

So maybe loads of people would rush to buy Mario Kart 9 on PS4 but what about Mario Kart 10 or 11 or 12 when the novelty is wearing off or if they have a couple of bad releases.

So if you throw out the console sales entirely and go third party with the licensing fees etc coming in to play then how many more units of each game do they need to shift year after year for it to be worthwhile.

Then you have the handheld market to consider. They seem to have sold 60 million or so 3DS consoles.

I think it's better for Nintendo to have their own games that can only be played on Nintendo consoles. With the odd android or iphone app thrown in there once in a while to remind people that Nintendo still exists!

Looking at the Switch, I wonder if it's more realistic that they will move on to selling handheld consoles that have some kind of Gameboy Player contraption that allows you to play on the TV.

That's why the Switch marketing seems so weird to me. The main selling points are that it's portable and that it has Nintendo exclusive titles. It doesn't feel like a home console at all but more of a portable console that you can play on your TV if you want to.