Nintendo is the only game company that is expanding instead of laying off people
How did this happen?
Nintendo is the only game company doing well
Nintendo is the only game company that is expanding instead of laying off people
How did this happen?
they're in japan and have laws against that
>How did this happen?
1st party oriented business
thinking long term rather than trying to please investors in short term
Despite why Gankeredditors will claim, they very rarely have outright bad games.
They put out software at a variety of budget levels, allowing for a mix of iteration and innovation as well as a consistent release cadence
They put out software in a variety of genres, ensuring a degree of evergreen appeal
that's not it. That's why Japanese devs in general don't lay off people as frequently but Sony literally just did it to some of their Japanese Playstation staff.
The main thing is Nintendo is growing and actually raising salaries for their employees in general. This is due to how much profit they make
troony post
Nintendo already did their layoffs like two years ago when they closed their Vancouver and Silicon Valley offices that basically did nothing, 90% of the employees at NoA are contract work, and it is basically impossible to fire someone in Japan
I remember those layoffs
Nintendo was ahead of the curve trimming the fat and getting rid of useless DEI hires
Well the motivation there was driven by NOA and NOE.
Nintendo of Japan, the devs themselves, have been seeing salary growth since then.
NOA and NOE are mostly just seen as the publishing and marketing branches for those regions, they don't actually employ any developers (beyond Retro, I think)
By comparison, Sony, EA and others are cutting their active developer work force and cancelling projects
>and it is basically impossible to fire someone in Japan
Everyone says that, but Nintendo has far greater retention than either SEGA or SONY, and their global branches are the same.
I wonder how long op'll spam this thread before he finally gets mad that people won't stop laughing at him
My god, without fail
is your comment supposed to refer to nintendo fans' obsession with sony?
>Too moronic to understand a picture
Frick me, I didn't realise things were so dire in the cult of Snoy
>Too moronic to understand words
Unsurprising, but still disappointing
might have something to do with the fact they don't throw 300 milllion dollaridoos down the toilet to make another capeshit game
Nintendo fans will buy anything and everything Nintendo puts out. They are the most drone like consumers of the console market. Super Mario/Zelda/Pokémon/Metroid rehash will always make huge profits.
t. Capeslop obsessed
Yes that explains why the Wii U was such a runaway hit
turns out the sole exception to the rule is when you don't tell nintendo fans that nintendo product exists
I too remember when the Gamecube also dominated the console market
When someone says something about Nintendo fans and you have to go back 23 years to find an exception you're just being pedantic. Nintendo fans means Nintendo fans of today. What does people in the year 2001 have to do with anything? The drones we're talking about were children then.
>NO STOP THAT EXAMPLE DOESNT COUNT
Because you homosexuals were saying the same during the Wii U era, your analysis is poor and fueled by your juvenile hatred.
Wasn't the whole point that Nintendo built up a stable of brainwashed manchildren? If the ones buying the Swtch today come from that era then surelly the Gamecube would ahve sold more correct?
Many kids, including myself, caught up on GC on the Wii. I had a PS2 instead of GC but ended up playing plenty of GC games.
>Nintendo fans would buy anything
Their last generation was one of the worst console of all time, and failed
>You guys have only one example
What about the GameCube?
>Kek you have to go back 23 years to find an example (please ignore the fact that you went back to the GameCube because I said that the Wii U didn't count)
The absolute state
The WiiU was a bad example because they fricked up the marketing. Notice all the Nintendo drones who obsessively praise pretty much every WiiU switch port that comes out. They would have liked the WiiU clearly.
I don't think what anyone says on Ganker matters when we have real objective market data to go off of
I'm not in the "Wii U> Switch" camp but yeah, the Wii U wasn't half bad. People who treat it as one of the worst consoles ever are nuts
>And the N64
>And the Gamecube
lol
tendo tots weren't as moronic back then
The Wii U is actually a great demonstration of how many hardcore Nintendo fans there are. 12 million. That's why its sales were so frontloaded, all the biggest Nintendo fans bought it immediately.
So the other 120+ million sales from the Switch are from the general audience.
Didn't work for the wii U so that proves you wrong
If anything it's snoys that mindlessly buy playstation products
Kek. Snoys will literally buy a PlayStation in preparation for the new Call of Duty/FIFA before it is even announced. Hence why the PS5 was selling early on despite no fricking games.
>Nintendogays will buy...
>Snoygays will buy...
>SonicBlack folk will buy...
>Fromshitters will buy...
>Capc**ts will buy...
*yawn*
Except nintendo makes the same four games over and over for the last 30 years on a low budget. Meanwhile Sony and Microsoft spend hundreds of millions on actors, motion capture, cutting edge technology for products that suck shit and are huge losses.
nintendo has the most diverse game library and it's not even fricking close. All you sony/gays/leftists do is fricking project
The point is nintendo gets away with shitty rehashed shit repeatedly and doesn't see any loses. Sony spends $200 million on a god of war rehash nobody gave a frick about or bought.
Sounds like only losers work at Sony.
No Sony isn't ripping off their consumers like Nintendo is. They don't have the brand loyalty to do that. They can't do a low budget Pikman rehash #8 and expect their user base to buy it anyways. Sony fricked up by making everything about graphics and big cinematic experiences with high paid actors and 40 hours if record dialogue and motion capture in every game.
>No Sony isn't ripping off their consumers like Nintendo is. They don't have the brand loyalty to do that.
Nice projection snoyflake. Plebstation always was a cult from day 1. They literally sailed in on brand loyality and fanboyism.
>They don't have the brand loyalty to do that.
troony.....I consider myself a Nintendo guy but even I skipped the fricking WiiU era, played Wii games mostly because my little brother got one, at that time I was playing World of Warcraft, and PlayStation 3, I go where there are good games, simple as....
lol
lmao
The problem with Snoys is that you folk have been conditioned to hate fun games, hence why games like Helldivers 2 sell like shit on PS5 and why Sony needs to go multiplat for their games that aren't 300 million budget dumped movie games
Other than brand, why did you buy a PS5? What does it offer you after 4 years?
>They don't have the brand loyalty to do that.
>THE FRICKING PONIES
Get a load of this troon!
I can’t wait for those sony theme parks like nintendo does lmao
Sonys Ips being shit and unappealing as frick just proves even more that Snoys are braindead brand loyalists that will accept anything shoved down their throat pretending to like it as long as daddy Sony telling them it's cool to like it lmao
Even if snoyhomosexuals swallow up sony’s increase in price for their shit service, nintendohomosexuals literally bought a collection of emulated Super Mario games for full price.
Pretty sure both can go eat a bullet.
“Full price” would have been $180 moron. Collections are always at a high discount
MGS collection was going for $30 at the time, you fricking mong. Actually most collections (like Crash or Spyro) were ALSO going for sales price. You were the only morons paying over $60
For 15+ year old emulated games:
>MGS collection
For the PS3? Who cares?
>like Crash or Spyro
Mid lol Mario Galaxy alone trounces all their games
> For the PS3? Who cares?
For everyone?
>muh Mario Galaxy
What a surprise, nintendohomosexual doesn’t care about soending $60+ on badly emulted games with a SINGLE “good” one
Our games don’t age into the 75% off bargain bin after eight months
>I LOVE cucking myself to full price like a good consumer homosexual”
The power of nintendo, fearsome.
>"I LOVE playing unfun wokeshit on my Sony PS5 before emulating Nintendokino on my PC”
The power of nintendo, fearsome, unironically.
>NOOOOOOO, I WANNA PAY FULL PRICE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Powerful nintendo consumer statement.
>Powerful nintendo consumer statement.
It actually is, yes. If you make a product people want they will pay for it, in this case that product is fun games.
Nobody cares about your actual opinion, bot. I’m showcasing your lunacy for everyone else to see.
I'll take that as a yes. Thanks for playing.
>buy product
>own product
>product appreciates in value
I take it you're used to a different business model?
Pony, I don't even own a switch, I EMULATE ALL THE GAMES ON PC, NAD TRUST ME, I'M SERIOUSLY THINKING ON GETTING A SWITCH 2 IF IT HAS ANYWHERE NEAR THIS SUPPORT
Who
>People are willing to pay money... for a good product?
>How could this be happening?
it's funny because snoys buying games at $5, if they buy them at all, is part of the reason sony has terrible profit and went third party
>Pay full price for Nintendo games so muh favorite corporation can succeed unironically
>Because I'm also a Nintendo shareholder
Feels good to be a Tendie
jokes aside I feel like people are genuinely underestimating the real possibility of sony stop producing playstation consoles. all they need is to find a way to get people into their PS+ service but on PC and they can cut a big expense they have in hardware manufacturing
Xbox like gamepass. They'll copy Microsoft when it comes down to it in the end
>eight months
Too generous. 3 months.
>What a surprise, nintendohomosexual doesn’t care about soending $60+ on badly emulted
I'm not a poorhomosexual so no, I have no problem paying money for a product that I want, and they weren't badly emulated either. I personally refused to buy it because of the moronic timed release bullshit
>Nintendo Releases console with almost no games
>Flops so hard CEO had to take a salary cut to avoid layoffs
>Snoyny releases console with NO games
>IT'S CONSTALY SELLING OUT AND OUT OF STOCK
>PONY IS SO BRAINDEAD HE FAILS TO SEE THE IRONY
This is why you are the cu cks of the console wars
> Snoyny releases console with NO games
The switch is a paywalled tablet with zero accessibility to nintendo games and a shitty sub service that ALSO doesn’t net you good nintendo games.
Yet it’s selling harder than any other system. Nintygays need to calm down with their “brand loyalty” accusations.
If this were pol I’d bother to take the bait but im just going to laugh at you instead
>The switch is buzzword buzzword buzzword oh yeah and they have a subscription service for games just like everybody else except theirs are one that people actually wanna play and they're selling the best
Wow
>I love paying for my virtual console with far less games than I ever did before
I own a switch, I know what comes with your shit tablet.
>I own a switch
>I love paying $80 to Sony to play games online, oh btw sony doesn't make any online games and their service is worse than Microsofts
At least mine came with Nintendo games.
> At least mine came with Nintendo games
You know, at least Bloodborne has been free for years to ANY PS4 owner. What do YOU get with your switch, do tell?
Free since launch
>I love being a thief!
No it's just convienent, no need to tag on your soi emotions. Sorry your argument didn't work btw.
>What do YOU get with your switch, do tell?
Fun games
Lol
Lmao
LMAO
Yes, both of you.
>Seething this hard because le console brand he doesn't like actually has fun games
Whoa
I’m still laughing from you homosexuals deep throating a corporation’s product so much you argue FOR paying full price just to cope
As long as you keep thinking about us sweetie
>NOO YOU CAN'T PAY FOR A GOOD PRODUCT
You're a jogger-tier poorhomosexual holy shit
>Buys a switch so he can play Mario, Pokemon and Zelda just like everyone else
>Whines on the internet about these games costing money
Holy frick you Black folks are so pathetic
I didn’t buy it. My brother bought it, got bored of it, gave it to me. You think I’m gonna BUY this shit? I told HIM not to get one lmao.
>The switch is a paywalled tablet with zero accessibility to nintendo games and a shitty sub service that ALSO doesn’t net you good nintendo games.
Better than a paywalled tethered multiplat box with zero accessibility to sony games and a shitty sub service that ALSO doesn't net you good sony games
>ONE RIDE
>No Sony isn't ripping off their consumers like Nintendo is.
Ripping them off worse actually. Worse than Microsoft even.
>They don't have the brand loyalty to do that.
They have a minimum of 80 million snoys ready to buy any Playstation that launches regardless of games
>They can't do a low budget Pikman rehash #8 and expect their user base to buy it anyways.
They can. They just chose to make high budget movie games instead because that's what the fans want, and now they're facing mass layoffs and studio closures.
>No Sony isn't ripping off their consumers like Nintendo is. They don't have the brand loyalty to do that. They can't do a low budget Pikman rehash #8 and expect their user base to buy it anyways
Black person, Spider-man 2 uses the same assets and map than the last 2 games. Pikmin 4 at least have different enemies and maps.
>No Sony isn't ripping off their consumers like Nintendo is
reminder that this is the second remake that TLOU got, when you could already play it on modern hardware. and it costs $70
>Doesn't even have the online game
the first was a remaster, xcuck.
>gets away with shitty rehashed shit repeatedly
Doesn't look like 100 samegay 3rd persona cinematic walking/holding button simulators to me
You are just a butthurt "MUH GRAPHIX" gay with no content of diminishing returns
The God of War reboot and maybe ragnarok are some of the few games Sony actually profited off of in the past 6-7 years. The issue is their insane predictions for profit margins on EVERY 9 digit budget game they make.
Thing is, if "Nintendo Game: Remake" ends up selling one or two million copies, it's still a success.
If "The Last of Us Part 1: Remaster: Remake" sells one or two million copies, it's a complete disaster. Some of the decisions Sony makes make no sense to me, why remake TloU for the third time? Why THE FRICK did they buy Bungie for four billion dollars? Hello?! Do you have any idea how many Helldivers-sized games they could've funded with FOUR BILLION dollars?
Now, Nintendo keeps pumping out "decent" 7/10s and they all sell millions if not tens of millions for some reason... but that's another story. They don't need to sell that much, it's fine if Bayonetta 3 flops because they didn't bet the entire company on three games.
Turns out it's not profitable to prioritize hiring untalented brown people instead of people who know what they're doing. Nintendo also doesn't spend 50% of a games budget on advertising
>nintendo gets away with shitty rehashed shit repeatedly
Let me guess FIFA, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto don't count as series full of rehashes?
Nintendo series always have large wait times between installments. It's like 5 years between every Zelda installment. Splatoon gets a new game every 3 or so years. It's been 10 years since the last Mario Kart game released. Pikmin has had 4 installments over the 21 years between Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 4. The last 2d Metroid game before Dread released in 2021 was Fusion in 2002 (not counting remakes/rereleases).
People who are fans of these series, unsurprisingly, don't get burned out when they only get a new installment every couple of years.
>Nintendo has the most diverse game library and it's not even fricking close.
That's not true, they have been making the same series for decades and they also make extremely safe games that take no risks.
>they also make extremely safe games that take no risks
Give an example of risk-taking projects from other companies lol
>take no risks
is especially funny considering stuff like the wii and wii u, and even the switch was a risky idea that I wasn't sold on when they first announced it
>they have been making the same series for decades
That's because they're the only one still making fun couch multiplayer games for families, which have sold consistently for decades and yet Sony and Microsoft just wanna do pozzed walking sim shooter garbage with heckin cinematic stories
>B-but Nintendie bad
>lists why what they are doing is good
ESL-kun
>actors
so shit that doesn't matter for vidya
Yeah well it's progress in the art form at least that is what it's supposed to be. For nintendo progress was taking the same Zelda and Pokémon formula and slapping an open world on it and they were rewarded way more for doing nothing new.
Actors are nothing new.
Yeah but the amount of effort, time, and money put in to their performance and motion capture is increased enormously. More time is put in to animating nathan drakes face than was put in to any of the 2-3 mario shovelware released each year. Sony is pushing limits on that front. Nintendo stays with the status quo silent Link who still grunts the same way he did 30 years ago in Oot. Nintendo doesn't need to push the envelope because people just want the same food everytime.
IF SHIT WORKS, WHY CHANGE? If there is a market, why pass it? You keep trying to frame it as something bad but from company standpoint, they are winning.
Sony spends insane money and doesn't get it back? Frick 'em.
They're winning because Nintendo fans settle for same menu year after year decade after decade. Sony and Microsoft push limits and take risks with their rehashed series because their fans expect bigger and better for everything.
That’s entirely on Sony and Microsoft then. They should have tried to pivot when it was less disastrous financially. I don’t understand when people say this shit lol it’s like “Nintendo should do worse less sustainable business because it’s not FAIR” what fricking industry works like that.
>muh limits
>muh risks
If you have an item on the menu that keeps you rich for years, you have to be moronic to stop selling it.
People like normal Coca Cola.
>because their fans expect bigger and better for everything.
Sony and Microsoft only have themselves to blame. They pushed for graphics meme instead of making fun games first. Switch gets memed on it's graphics but guess what? Mario 64 is still fun game. People loved Minecraft. Who the frick cares about graphics if the game is good, then?
Sony and Microsoft also indulge LGBTQWERTY+ "people".
>decade after decade. Sony and Microsoft push limits and take risks with their rehashed series because their fans expect bigger and better for everything.
Sony is trying to sell the cover shooter from last of us sin the 09s it is stale and it is bad. the best way to play those games is on youtube cutscenes only.
>Nintendo fans settle for same menu year after year decade after decade
>Uh oh another decade playing fun games
>It really sucks being a Tendie right guys
Sony and Microsoft are morons for not making their own Blue Ocean market based on Nintendo's. There's a reason every business school in the US has students write papers based on the Nintendo Blue Ocean case study and no other video game companies
>Sony and Microsoft push limits and take risks
LMAO name a single example of this
If this is what you care about you should prefer Nintendo's "gimmick rule" where every new title has to have some kind of new gameplay gimmick. It's why they won't make shit like Paper Mario TTYD 2 or F-Zero GX 2 even though fans want both
>Nintendo makes similar thing using known IPs that run well, play well, and fit what fans want
>This is bad somehow
that's called building a fanbase, stupid fricking Black person.
sony can't stop shitting on their IPs and not building them. Also because they fricking suck.
filling your game with africans is a big risk, i'll give you that
but risks aren't inherently noble or worthwhile
I'll let you in on a secret anon. That's what I fricking want. I don't want radical gameplay redesigns every 3 years with ever evolving stakes, plots ripped straight from TV/movies, and graphics more realistic than IRL.
I wanna sit back, jump on top of Goombas, and rescue the god damn princess as Mario in a variety of colorful yet similar worlds.
>makes the same four games over and over
It's like the same 20 games and they do it consistently well
>Mario 2d
>Mario 3d
>Pokemon
>Zelda
>Kirby
>Animal Crossing
>Metroid
>Pikmin
>Fire Emblem
>XBC
>Splatoon
>Smash
>Mario Kart
>Mario Tennis
>Mario Golf
>Mario Strikers
>Mario Party
>Yoshi
>Luigi's Mansion
>WarioWare
If Nintendo didn't make good games then what the frick would people emulate on their PCs?
Forgot Paper Mario
And Mario & Luigi.
And Bayonetta, their personal DMC clone. Switch actually has games, and many of its best are exclusive. That's what causes such seething
>half of them are mario
grim
>Each different Mario series has different gameplay, including sports titles that are more fun than officially licensed pro league games
Nintendo cannot stop winning
Those are just 4-5 Tendie slop franchises
Name them
Looks to be easily 10+ IPs
Each one listed has completely different gameplay
He also forgot Donkey Kong btw. So that's what, 25 different IPs that are all pretty fun and all exclusive
> Meanwhile Sony and Microsoft spend hundreds of millions
Maybe that is the problem
>nintendo fans buy anything nintendo makes because sony and microsoft make shitty games
>THIS IS BAD BY THE WAY
Dude where the frick did that image come from i want it.
i'm like 90% sure this is from supermega's book matt and ryan save the troops
they're youtubers if that matters to you
>on a low budget
How in the world is this supposed to be a bad thing?
>actors, motion capture
have a nice day
It's like you are living 20 years ago, everything even outside of videogames makes the "same things" every year more then ever, so Nintendo is not at all unique in that regard.
>Except nintendo makes the same four games over and over for the last 30 years on a low budget
You're thinking of Fromsoftware and Sony rehashing their samey games 10 times per gen. Nintendo makes their 15+ successful IPs like once per gen. You're just salt because you're tired of them being successful with successful IPs they cultivated themselves
> zombie movie game part 1
> zombie movie game part 1 Remastered
> zombie movie game part 2
> zombie movie game part 1 remake
idk how anyone could think this was a good ten year plan
people are tired of press x to win movie "video games"
>blind fanboys will buy anything and everything their shitty company puts out
fixed
>buy
Just download and play. The emulators are decent and cracking their shit is ez.
If people didn't pay money for Nintendo games there wouldn't be any games for PCgays to be smug about emulating. What, you're gonna emulate FF7 for the 100th time? Play the new God of Onions? No you waited for TOTK like a good boy.
Nintendo is the market leader, and it's because they produce quality products efficiently. Any claims to the contrary is pure cope.
I don't have the kind of autism that makes nintendo games feel fun.
>enjoying a game means you have autism
Well you definitely failed the autism test
150 millions Nintendo fans, wow what a moron.
>all those exceptions don’t count!
Unironically this but with Valvecucks.
you have to go back decades to find a valve game that didn't bomb
>Nintendo fans will buy anything and everything Nintendo puts out.
the N64, GC and wiiu would like to have a word
I mean, look at pic related. One of the worst games released in the 7th gen, and yet fans lapped it up like crazy. We still have threads jerking off over how good it is to this day.
Literally no one on planet earth thinks this except Andrew Dobson. Stop being gay
Stop. That's ACgay. Do not respond.
sonygays always accuse other people doing the shit they always do.
Who do you think bought those systems? Hell, why do you think the Wii was so successful? Good games? The wii that didn’t even have its own ethernet adapter was the best selling system of its time despite having the most shovelware ever.
>Who do you think bought those systems?
at best 30 million people. that's less than half than what the PS3 sold. you can't justify ninteendo's success with blind consumerism by nintendo fans
>Hell, why do you think the Wii was so successful?
because motion controls were a novel concept at the time
The Wii had less shovelware than the PS2, in fact all the worst Wii games you can think of were all originally PS2 games. After Sony dominated with the PS2 and Nintendo adopted the Sony "just develop literally anything and we will let you sell it" mentality from the PS1/PS2 era
You know what the problem is? PS2 ports weren’t fricking awful and they weren’t forcing motion controls on every third party dogshit. We all remember Dead Rising Wii? Scarface Wii? Etc etc etc
>fans only bought 30 millions
So 100 millions of Switch sales aren't from fans, then? Ok.
Thanks for proving the point.
Did the GC really sell that bad?
I remember most of the people I knew growing up having one.
Obviously it’s wasn’t PS2 or Wii levels of insane success but was it really WiiU tier?
Gc was fine but PS2 was king. It wasn’t as bad
It sold about as much as the Xbox but they were both completely blown out of the water by the PS2 which is to this day the best selling video game console. I don't think the Switch can surpass it still
fanboys buy anything their company outputs but
the difference is that nintendo didn't spend 350$ million to make bing bang wahoo, while snoy did to release Black personman
one of the two is struggling right now
nintendo's business model is profitable
the rest aren't
>Nintendo fans will buy anything and everything Nintendo puts out
Like people buying PS5s despite it having ZERO fricking games?
> Gaming laptop/pc brand.
That's the gayest fricking thing to have on the list, just combine the two + PC users to make it fair enough, like holy shiiit.
And why Fire Emblem Engage the 30 year anniversary title was such a sales record breaker.
Engage literally had no marketing whatsoever. I consider myself a Fire Emblem fan and it completely went under my radar
I hate popular things the post
>why are people buying the best games for that console
Seems like drone KEKED behaviour to me. Now let me boot up my fomo streamerbait game that only has a lifespan of a few months
You're seriously fricking moronic if you think overpriced shovelwares like ARMS, Kirby, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, and Mario Strikers are better than Palworld or Helldivers 2
There are only a few pokemon games worse than palworld
>You're seriously fricking moronic if you think Games are better than FOTM shit.
>Nintendo fans will buy anything and every
WiiU exist.
Virtual Boy exist.
Gamecube exist.
Stop lying, trannoid.
I bought a virtual boy (at a garage sale for 99% off)
nintensisters falling for the most obvious bait of all time
Not really. You weren't baiting. You legitimately furious that Nintendo is successful.
Blizzard fans meet what you just said and Nintendo unlike Blizzard makes actual good games. It is incredible to see seething at success. All Nintendo does is make good exclusive games that make people want to buy their products. What has Microsoft or Sony done? Neither of those things.
>Nintendo fans will buy anything and everything
>fans will buy anything and everything
No shit.
Well considering Sony or Xbox Exclusives are complete fricking ass, there is nothing really to compare it to, so pop off with your moronic nonsense.
Look at the Ps5 Top 10, one of its exclusive is number 10 on the list being Spiderman, the top 9 are multi platform
Cry harder Eric.
By actually putting a budget and a schedule on games so stuff actually comes out cheaper then half a billion dollars per game. Seriously unless your game is guaranteed massive financial success that shit is a terrible idea and why the only company able to freely get away with that is Rockstar since GTA is literally an infinite money printing machine.
To add to this Bethesda pre starfield was able to get away with shit as well but that game literally killed all goodwill Bethesda had since it was just utter giga shit.
The lawsuits. I’m not hidden either. They’re going to sue and get the money they would’ve gotten laying people off. If they lose these suits. They’re dropping people like rocks
>Make ten games instead of one
>Underperformers aren't that big of a deal and overperformers have huge margins because of low cost
>Avoid debt and acquisitions since those never lead to good video games
It's not rocket science
The real secret is that they aren't run by MBAs
Pretty sure there isn't a single switch game nintendo made that underperformed
Cereza and the lost demon, sadly, it's the only one that didn't reach 1m copies sold.
>Nintendo made
The new Mario Strikers
Advance Wars 1+2
Proof they were flops though?
This. Nintendo never seems to overextend themselves.
I would say that the Wii U flopping was a blessing for the Switch in a way. Some of the Switch's best sellers were just reworked Wii U titles that helped pad out the usual early console content drought, enough to draw in new buyers to warrant more support from developers.
I'm curious to see how much content Nintendo already has ready for the next console.
they‘re the only company making real video games. it‘s not rocket science
>ESL is dead
>wokest out of the 3 doing well
GOTTEM UOL-sama
Rockstar, Capcom and Fromsoft are doing great too.
You morons were saying the same thing about EA yesterday lol
Decades of adapting in not needing third parties to survive.
they‘re not woke
Valve is going to be the last one standing. Nintendo is fricked this decade with the advent of AI and with the Switch 2 they finally start catching up to the ballooning dev time and costs that are currently fricking over Sony and Microsoft.
>Nintendo is fricked this decade with the advent of AI
In what way other than ballooning dev time and costs?
AI can only produce assets and Nintendo showed off a game in their
Japan Partner Direct that uses AI art, Nintendo can probably just adopt the tech at any time
or not, I'm not too sure on the whole copyright situation since the art really isn't made by anyone
unless they're an be some kind of loop hole for that, for Valve, they're just Valve and will go on whatever
tech joy ride that seems cool since that's kinda how they operate.
>AI can only produce assets
Google just announced an AI that can literally create platformers from a single image or prompt. AI is going to engulf everything and media driven companies like Nintendo are going to become irrelevant when anyone can just generate their own dream games with minimal effort. They can't compete with that.
Arent we getting ahead of ourselves? Im not going to downplay or overhypd AI, but its still technology in its infancy. Right now it feels more like uranium than VR.
>Arent we getting ahead of ourselves?
If I said next year, yes. But I said over the coming decade. It's going to get exponentially better and easier for anyone to create whatever media they want and it can't be stopped. Even if people just wanted to generate Nintendo games over their dream games, there would be such a flood of them Nintendo wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
Yeah. I wonder if it's age thing or just that I've been addicted to reading history the last few decades I suddenly turn on the news and realize we are currently living through history: We have no clue how the world will look tomorrow, not to mention ten years from now. It's both terribly exciting and comfortably scary.
>when anyone can just generate their own dream games with minimal effort.
That's not how people work, though. Consuming unique media made just for one individual is not exactly the same thing as consuming media made for the public. People who consume media made for the public are interested in the social factor too, i.e. they want to know what such an artist has created, compare it with their other works, talk to fans about it, criticize it, praise it, recommend it, etc. It's a social activity that can't be replicated with instant media creation for individual use.
People won't go to work and say: "wow, you can't believe the game the AI created for me yesterday, I do X and Y, it's so cool!", nobody gives a shit, this kind of thing is annoying and socially inappropriate, so there will always be room for media made by artists/companies intended for mass consumption.
Good luck getting Google to support that project for more than a year
I bet on Google dropping it before it even gets improvements so it could make something else other than platformers
1000% this is the goal and that’s not a bad thing. Gotta start small and build step by step before you can have an ai generate a 60 hour FF17.
>S-SWITCH 2 IS COMING
Nintendo, doomed since 1886.
>Nintendo is fricked this decade with the advent of AI and with the Switch 2 they finally start catching up to the ballooning dev time and costs that are currently fricking over Sony and Microsoft.
Nah, if switch 2 is like PS4, programing will be still less demanding than PS5 or PS6. The hardware lap is what allow nintendo to keep low budgets. Also if anything, AI will reduce cost, Only cutting-edge technology needs a strong initial investment from developers, while 10-year-old technology does not.
>Consoles with shit outdated hardware sold at profit day one
>Games with simplistic graphics, meaning they're cheaper to make
They're not even wrong in their approach. Mario Wonder and Spider-Man 2 both came out around the same time. As of this month Mario sold 12M copies while Spider-Man sold 10M. We don't know how much Wonder cost to make but it sure as frick didn't cost 300 million dollars. Slightly higher sales and much much higher profit margin per copy.
Don't forget Sony also has to pay Disney a sizable cut for every Spider-Man 2 copy and bundle sold
Sony owns Spiderman
Sony owns the movie rights, not the right to make games using the franchise. Yes it’s stupid that all this shit is separated.
No, fox owns the movie rights...and disney bought them.
Wow you're moronic. Marvel owns Spider-Man. What company currently owns Marvel?
Nintendo runs low budgets on their games and didn't overhire during the pandemic. They also smartly played their IP cards right with the movie and theme park deals when they were at their lowest with the Wii U and it's all starting to pay off now.
Also, they didn't spend over $300 million dollars before marketing on a single game like Sony did. Their whole 2023 line up probably cost about half that. Nintendo aren't making entirely fricking stupid decisions like Sony are.
None of the Japanese publishers are laying people off. Bamco cancelled a couple games, that's about it. The Japanese companies are run better and make better games than their western competitors, it's as simple as that.
They didn't fell for the 4k graphicwhorism memerace
Less spending, more making games.
The only reason nintendo is "doing better" is due to japanese law. It's next to impossible to fire someone employed directly by a company. You also can't do mass layoffs in Japan unless your company is essentially bankrupt already and the exec suite has to take paycuts before that. Every NA/CANADA company doing mass layoffs all have an exec team making far above what anyone in Nintendo are making. Every tech company here is pump and dump exec scams that are solely in it for the shares and bonuses and don't care if the company goes belly up because they won't be there in 5 years so why would they give a frick.
Anon that law has nothing to do with them right now. Nintendo is literally expanding, if anything they are hiring people and bringing the dev partners in.
Yeah and na companies could do the same if their execs weren't making 100mil in shares regularly.
Graphics. That's the answer. Instead of pissing away up to a decade of life and hundreds of millions to make an under-performer or flop, they focus on more cartoon-like graphics that they can churn out fater and yield higher returns.
Tortoise and the Hare
>doesn't put borderline 9 figures into the creation and advertisement of their games
>Doesn't have a ton of worthless job positions not related to video games
That probably helps a lot.
cause they aren't dumps hundreds of millions into one single video game like sony is. sonys movie games might sell a lot when they finally release but sometimes they don't even make the money back they spend and the lack of games hurt their platform because the only thing on there is 3rd party software at that point
>NOOOOOO STOP MAKING GAMES PEOPLE WANT THATS CHEATING
Lmao every snoy fanboy or pcboy b***hed about Nintendo for their outdated graphics yet their games are the ones that sells out the most, one of the few companies that understands gameplay's more important than making a movie
Costs kept low.
Quality mostly kept up.
Prices kept high.
Nintendos business model is to pander to the whole family and not rainbow haired woke people
Isn't Remedy hiring people at the moment?
>How did this happen?
grooming your customers for 40 years into liking whatever garbage you put out helps apparently
Why did Sony groom their customers to like movie video games that cost 300 million to make lmao
Should have groomed them to like Fun games like Nintendo
Now their fun games like Helldivers don't even sell on their own console but much better on PC, people who have been groomed by Steam to like fun games
They can never recover from this lmao
>muh sony
i don't give a frick what those morons do
that doesn't change what i said
>"grooming" customers is when you make consistently fun games that people want to play
the only reason nintendo is still popular is because it was pretty much the only game company in the 90s
and the kids from the 90s are now manchildren that will defend daddytendo no matter how many mario and pokemon remakes they make
It wasn't, there was also Sega and then Sony which very famously took a huge part of their market share. People defend Nintendo because they make fun games. People used to be able to defend Sony and Xbox the same way because they used to try to make fun games. Not anymore though
>the entire 00’s and late 90’s trend of FPS’s and oohrah dudebro games comes from gamers “””growing up””” and being too mature for kiddy nintendo games
>yet they are somehow the ones keeping nintendo afloat
Hmmmmm
>this zoomer revisionism
morons like you think console wars are a new concept.
>Nintendo was the only game company in the 90s
Holy fricking shit you are moronic
never said that
learn to read idiot
You literally said
>Nintendo was pretty much the only game company in the 90s
Despite that being wildly untrue
this since even Pirate Chads cant wait to play the next Nintendo game along with Nintendo system owners
They will catch up with the rest of the industry in the next console generation, as always.
because they actually make games
And it still looks like garbage on my 4k tv
SHIT APE Black person
autist is also gay
many such cases
Because their game budgets are very modest compared to western games and even other japanese games. Because their profit margin is so big they can continue to do what they've always done.
Sony is doing fine, laying off useless western developers is a good move which will increase profitability
>November 2023
It was a 6% profit margin on $10 billion revenue, they have lots of money
From cnbc:
Sony reported a 29% drop in operating profit for its second quarter as the company suffered from weakness in its imaging sensor business.
Sony attributed the significant drop in profit to weakness in its imaging sensor business, as well as declines in profit at its financial services and entertainment, technology and services units.
I'm talking about the Playstation business. They can increase margin from 6% to 25% by making games like Ghost of Tsushima ($60 million budget) and getting rid of the bloat.
>They can increase margin from 6% to 25%
anon I think that if they could they would have done it
>By the time The Wind Waker was released, game development costs on home consoles had risen significantly. This was something that Nintendo had been wary of for some time, as the company believed that creating games with constantly escalating budgets was an unsustainable business
They saw that more grafixx was a bad thing.
They also learned their lesson about muh power and muh grafix with gamecube, it was more powerful than PS2 and it got still mogged because PS2 had games
>Makes a console that's not just another gimped PC
>Makes games for it
It's as simple as that
>someone criticizes nintendo
>BUT SONY THOUGH!
holy obsessed lmao
>The Snoy is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a homosexual, idiot, cancer, mongoloid, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Snoy and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”
>How did this happen?
Nintendo makes games that everyone can enjoy, while their competitors make LGBTQHIV+ Black person worhship goyslop.
I've yet to see that one black b***h in a Nintendo game.
don't forget the Pokemon trainer one
Neither one of these is black Noses are too small, they have straight hair, and they aren't actively stealing something.
How have you not seen Marina or Twintelle yet
CUTE
lol at all the ESLs responding to this post with random brown anime girls not realizing he's obviously talking about Deborah Wilson
bump
Wait, wrong image.
disgusting off model trash
>on-model autist doesn't even know the character
twintelle is athletic and lithe with a small chest, not some kind of obese inflation fetish cow, you stupid cumbrain.
>moronic Black person gets triggered by art that is close to the real model
I bet you piss and shit yourself when people draw tifa with breasts bigger than a B cup
>delusional cumbrain has never played the game and lies to xirself in seething cope
Many such cases!
>no response beyond crying and projecting
try not to rope
He means the black woman from Jedi Fallen Order lmao
If you want to be a racist poltard, cute lesbians kissing doesn’t help your argument lol
Cry harder, Black person troony.
I prefer Nintendo's lesbians
Marina is a lesbo but Pearl is not.
>that
>cute
nikocado kissing an ugly jungle chink is not cute.
Those lesbians are NOT cute.
> tfw pol has rotted your brain so badly you can’t even enjoy lesbians anymore without getting mad
???
Lesbians are supposed to be female
I think the funniest thing is Nintendo still outsellf them in the gays and w*men target group when Princess Peach Showtime hits. It's gonna have ridiculous sales numbers and people ask "WHO THE FRICK IS BUYING THIS" and the answer is women and gays and trannies.
Despite what angry feminists try to sell Hollywood and big AAA studios what girls and gays truly want to be is princess peach and being cute and being girly
And it's the only game where you can be a girly girl with absolutely no competition
>gays
These ones are covered by stuff like Pokemon because it has beefy men and furries they can thirst after. It's pretty funny that western game devs put rainbow flags in their games in a sad and misguided attempt to pander to them but in the end they lose to Nintendo simply because it delivers on stuff that actually matters(attractive characters you can jack off to)
>How did this happen?
They make games that the general public likes and buys in droves.
nintendo is also the only GAME company making GAMES
Coincidence? i think not.
>Make fun games
>They sell well
HOEH???
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
NOOOOOO DELET THIS
The funny thing about the Wii U failure is that it exposed that there are only around 10 million diehard Nintendo fans lmao
Was more of a portable guy, 3DS selled like hotcakes
After Nintendo did a 180 on marketing. The 3DS was also flopping at first
They have literally zero fricking games for 2024 and you cultists tendies are still praising them.
>BUT THE PEACH GAME FOR LITTLE GIRLS
>BUT REMASTER OF GAMES WE ALREADY PLAYED LIKE TTYD AND LUIGI MANSION 2!
Pathetic
>lists games
>NO THOSE DONT COUNT
Are you a little girl? Are you too moronic to emulate TTYD and will instead spend 80$ dollars on a game you already play?
I'll be emulating peach game week 0
>console's release schedule winds down in the final year of its life
Whoa
Sales on their existing games will make them more money than either of their "competitors".
>Do nothing
>Win
why are you so mad a console that is entering its 8th year has less games?
Its ok when Nintendo does it
Well the switches final year appears to have more games than the entirety of the PS5's library
>no argument.
even in the last year of its life the switch has more upcoming exclusives than ps and xbox combined. you're just a consooomer who only plays globohomosexual certified AAAslop.
>They have literally zero fricking games for 2024
They're announcing switch 2 likely before June/July, they've literally announced no games past that
Already forgot about the pokeshit game?
more players and sales than palworld, pajeet
This is revenge!
>muh falseflag post
don't flatter yourself, palworld wasn't even a player
>more players
cause switch has a steamdb equivalent you stupid lying homosexual
id be amazed if 100 people were playing scarlet (dogshit)
>palworld, barely 19 million sales
>the worst pokemon games in the series, easily 24 million sales
>palworld drops from 2 million players to half a million within a week
GEE i sure wish the switch had player stats because otherwise i have NO IDEA which one has more players
>19 million sales
Is it even that high? I thought that was including 7 million gamepass streamers
it is.
hope you're enjoying your garbage.
Palworld is even less complete and more buggy. Not sure how you didn't know this.
>nintendo has 0 games
>they have a lot actually
>UHH like pokeshit?
>its competitor is worse
>ENJOY YOUR GARBAGE LOL
I've got over 140 hours in Violet. How come I never encountered any bugs like this?
The biggest I encountered was a model from one of the paradox pokemon ending up in one of the control rooms of the final area. But it disappeared when I left and went back in.
>19 million sales
15 million sales
then like 7 or 9 million people playing on gamepass
I'd bet on it being multiplat or ported immediately but yeah I missed that being announced, I'm not a pokegay and I haven't played one since Pokemon White
it's just end of feb bro, nintendo can do direct in march and release in june or something like that, if i'm not mistaken, they've released more games in 2023 than in 2022 and 2021 so they've actually pumping more towards the end of the console
captcha: p420
My plan for 2024 so far
>Rogue Trader (PC) (Feb)
>Unicorn Overlord (Switch) (Mar)
>Catch up on my writing projects that will be behind by then (Apr)
>Luigi's Mansion 3 (Switch) Jun
As always, Switch+PC is the best combination.
Sure, Tendie, sure.
all of the big game companies are posting huge profits. japan just doesn't do moronic financial israelitery where they profit 10 billion dollars and somehow lose 30 billion worth of value because they didn't profit as much as expected.
plus of course their margins are higher because they still make low tech children's toys that are cheap to develop.
Acting like future announcements don’t exist either lol. MP1 remaster was launched instantly after reveal, Mario wonder was launched 2 months after reveal
Funny how this entire thread is snoys vs Nintendo. xbros don’t even exist anymore
Xbox killed itself at E3 2012, all subsequent activity has simply been the corpse twitching
name a single xbox game.
Go ahead. I'll wait.
Lost Odyssey
pretty good game. now name one that isn't nearly 20 years old.
It's honestly fascinating how bad they screwed things up after the successs of the 360. They had their chance but nope.
It's gonna be studied in the following years for sure.
Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world, and what did they do with it? Shit the bed. They HAD a great thing going with the 360 and then wasted it all.
>becomes the strongest
>spends too much time fricking around
>jobs
truly the JOBhan of video games
Kek
For how aggressively they've been acquiring studios, their ineup has been barren as hell.
They didn't invest into the live service mass marketing microtransaction bubble. All these things can be insanely profitable, but success becomes impossible once everyone starts doing them.
>you have alerted the /misc/tards
nice try, macaco.
You will not derail this shit thread with that.
>Xbox: Bethesda, COD, Halo
>All dying series with shit games in recent years
>Sony: Last of Us, Spidernig, God of Onions, Uncharted
>Wokeshit and walking sims
>PC: Admittedly fun autism games like Dwarf Fortress and Europa Universalis
>Most PC players just emulate whatever Nintendo makes
>Nintendo: Fun games, variety of gameplay, no wokeshit, exclusive to console
If you're still fighting le console wars and arguing that Nintendo's shit just because you have a grudge against them fricking give it a rest. They're objectively the best in the market, I've had every Playstation except the fifth and I can admit that Nintendo is the best, especially recently. Their handhelds have always been kino.
I'll concede that they're the best out of the console makers, but objectively the best games are the multiplats and PC titles.
Pizza Tower murdered every single other game in 2023, save for Armored Core 6, the only game that was better.
>look up pizza tower
>generic fotm 2d platformer #990033491
wow PC gaming is saved
Loads better than cinematic movieshit like Xenoblade or Zelda.
>this fricking webm again
You can go anywhere you want between the cutscenes. That games is not a hallway simulator like goy of onions.
>why aren't you okay with massive dumps of exposition being shoved in your face?!
>don't you like yet another anime plot about love and friendship?!
>i don't have an argument.
also
>love and friendship
more like suffering and reproducing.
If these games were so good, then they wouldn't need hour after hour of shitty hollywood bloat. Why do you care about an NPC's feelings so much, when they're just pixels on a screen meant to be stomped into the dust by the main character? This Undertale-esque "DON'T BE MEAN TO THE PIXELS" mindset is so confusing. Next you're gonna tell me that it's morally wrong to stomp goombas.
>tl;dr
yeah, we so won bros.
ok, acgay.
btw, ac6 is a fricking movie too.
now you can leave, ypu fricking Black personhomosexual.
Don't get angry at me for pointing out that Nintendo has the same problems as snoy and microshart games. The only difference is that Nintendo knows how to make money, while those two guys burn through money like it was easily flammable eucalyptus trees.
oh look you posted another fotm lol
didn't read, lol.
it's cute that anon thinks we're reading his posts and aren't dying at his seething. pretty sure he malding fr fr rn
Concession accepted.
oh she really malding
>no argument, just a tired out "u mad"
>redditbob
yeah and? doesn't change the fact that it's true lol. I'm gonna go play botw and took, and you WILL mald about it like before
If they were such good games, you would've been playing them already.
gonna start a 3rd playthrough of botw when im done with the first one in totk chud, cope
>just two more weeks
>still malding
see
>bigot tower
5 minutes
Confession denied.
>confession den-ACK!
>50 results
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/QDqohVmOJF951t1w5xzfeA/
>why are you posting video games on the videogame board
?????
>meme webm in response to his favorite 2023 being a shallow reskinned 2d platformer fotm
seething lol
You act like the rest of the game is any better.
it is actually. that's why people are still talking about two knockouts that are botw and totk while you're seething about it. ninty bros won
I'm playing BotW for the first time and I actually can't believe how bad the voice acting is.
Pizza Tower is Wario Land 4 inspired, you falseflagging homosexual.
Stop with this lie, it’s another fricking shitty sonic clone like freedom planet
Yeah I hope Pizza Tower gets ported to Switch, would be kino to play it on handheld
I loved Pizza Tower. That being said, it doesn't make my top 3 games for last year.
1. Tears of the Kingdom
2. Octopath Travelers II PC
3. Hi-Fi Rush
4. Pizza Tower
5. Metroid Prime Remastered
6. Mario Wonder
7. Pikmin 4
8. TEVI
9. Xenoblade Chronicles Future Redemed
10. Baldur's Gate 3
>game doesn't have waifus in it
>gets shat on
As is expected from Ganker.
Waifus + Good Gameplay > Good Gameplay > Waifus - Good Gameplay
>Gradius, Thunder Force, Ikaruga, and many other games are all shit because they don't have waifus
Touhou is better because it has waifus.
>touhou is better
>not one thread has EVER discussed the supposed gameplay
Thunder force actually has waifu material doe, TF3 displays the faces of the Rynex pilots, a guy and a redhead girl, and in TF5, you play as a cute silverhaired girl.
>doe
Please for love of god stop engagin ACgay
We could have had ten more years of ratchet & clank kino. Fricking TLOU and Uncharted were a waste of their best studios
>Nintendo is the only game company doing well
Ahem
Capcom and Larian too
Are they the only non-moronic Western company?
It helps that the switch is cheap and easy to develop for.
Back in the day AAA game costs were partly subsidized by casual Wii games that made more money than the AAA moneysinks, publishers seem to have forgotten that the only way they made profit from 2005-2012 was scamming people who don't know any better out of some cash while their AAA titles bomb left and right. Notice how all these companies doing mass layoffs have not invested money into switch development?
It's unlikely, but I hope Switch 2 can open the floodgates for the return of AA games.
>make an accessible console
>make fun games for it
>make money
Huh??? Fricking witchcraft
oh when did ACgay latch in pizza tower?
I have no idea why MS and Sony decided to go multiplat with their games, literally devaluing their IPs for some short term cash while completely fricking up their longterm growth
Easy. They NEED money. Interest rates are rising so free debt is not an option anymore. Their games sell like shit because the consoles sell like shit and they are sold at a loss anyway and the only money they can make is through game sales.
They literally are out of options and have no way of further kicking the can down the road. They already have to close studios and lay off employees of their big studios too.
They need to recoup losses of their lackluster sales of their 300 million budget games.
Helldivers 2 was only the first taste of blood. They won't be able to resist putting the big sellers on PC too.
Eh, Nintendo is in a different position than MS/Sony, they actually make a profit out of their hardware and their games make way more money on a way lower budget.
Since all I mentioned above is the opposite for Sony and MS they really need that money now.
Sony makes a lot off first parties too, not as much as nintendo but they make up for it with PS+, a service not on PC
PS and Xbox's brand identities have been progressively getting weaker as the time went on, Sony and MS probably decided the jig is up and it's better to try being third party machines with subscription services
It’s weird how they completely reset every gen. Spyro/Crash built up a huge brand, and the PS2 trashed them. Then Ratchet/Jak built up a huge brand and the PS3 trashed them.
They're in a shitton of trouble and need money now.
They can't go to the switch, because that thing is a last-gen iphone with a bigger screen. The only neutral party they can jump ship onto is the PC.
They wouldn't do this if their 200 million dollar gambit games showed significant profit, but they didn't.
>How did this happen?
They make video games instead of interactive TV shows. (The former makes money).
I think Nintendo is also going to start having problems very soon.
That Bloomberg report from a thousand years ago about the Switch Lite and Swith "Pro" (equivalent to a PS4) was fricking real, but Nintendo decided it was better to hold off on the "Pro" and only released the Lite version.
The thing is, they held that shit back so much that now it's impossible not to create a backlash, people are going to be extremely disappointed when they find out that the Switch's successor is just a slightly more robust version of the current hardware.
Another thing is that Nintendo didn't expect emulators to be so advanced (to the point where they'd be better than the future Switch 2), nor that an autistic German would be able to make a replica of a cartridge that could run pirated games on unlocked Switches (including the future "Switch 2").
>people are going to be extremely disappointed when they find out that the Switch's successor is just a slightly more robust version of the current hardware
Why is this a problem? Sony already got 50 million morons buying their nogamestation 5 and it was just nogamestation 4 but stronger. Maybe Switch 2 won't be as successful as the Switch but why wouldn't people buy a stronger version of a thing they liked?
Switch 2 being a last-gen console instead of a last-last gen console means they may be able to sell it at a profit unlike the nogames5
Nintendo ALWAYS sells consoles at a profit. Even the Wii U was a profit.
>extremely disappointed when they find out that the Switch's successor is just a slightly more robust version of the current hardware
the new nintendo 3ds sends its regards
I don't see how a backwards compatible Switch 2 would be a problem. Pokémon is announced for 2025, likely when Switch 2 will also hit. Add launch titles like Metroid Prime 4, Mario Kart 9 and Animal Crossing tease the next Smash Bros, port a bunch games like Elden Ring and Baldurs Gate that Nintendo fans have been missing out and you got a pretty strong launch.
CoD is legally committed to support nintendo for the next ten years too
wait really? wtf
Yeah they did it to make the Microsoft / activision merger less of a monopoly
It's so over for snoycels. All Nintendo needs is Fifa, Madden, Elden Ring, and a good MMO (FF14?) and there's no reason for anyone to ever own another console
Fifa on a Nintendo console alone would literally be game over for the rest
>Fifa on $200 switch lite
>Console sales hit 7 billion units
I mean Fifa gay's literally buy a 600 dollar game station just to play Fifa. Imagine telling them they can get that for half the price AND Mario Kart
Fifa already is on Switch though?
It's a gimped version, don't ask me how it's gimped I'm not a FIFAgay, but I know it's somehow inferior to actual FIFA
I’m surprised WoW isn’t on every console already. That game looks like shit so hardware wouldn’t be an issue
it has nothing to do with the result of the merger case though, they offered everyone a 10 year deal upfront. Sony went basedface and rejected it before realizing the FTC was about to lose and jumping on board
Also with Sony going multiplat now we might actually get Sony games on Nintendo ironically. Microsoft is doing it, I can imagine Sony won't be able to resist the Nintendo bucks either
What xbox games are coming for switch?
Call of Duty
The latest game being ported for the switch would be grounded. Before that there are already minecraft, ori, and cuphead being ported over to the switch
nintendo "invested" in gamers at a young age. those gamers are now adults that play bing bing wahoo and pokemon religiously. also nintendo is probably one of very few companies that actually consider the video game aspect of video games as opposed to just being a machine to make money. strangely, it helps.
sorry thesis is literally proven wrong
Snoys are biggest brand loyalists that will buy no matter how shit the system and the games are (not like it's any surprise but it's always funny seeing Snoys project this hard lol)
Nintendo is the hoe-girlve of gaming, snoy is the Black folkanji
KNEEL
Yamauchi-sama...
The non-meme answer is that Nintendo not only has a huge success in the Switch, but because they also don't chase the fanciest graphics, meaning they makes games that don't have bloated budgets that requires over 10 million copies to be sold to not be considered a failure. They realized back in the mid-00s that pouring everything into the most powerful hardware is a never-ending arms race.
This. It's why I hate BOTW and TOTK. They don't sacrifice enough in the graphics department, so the games run like hot garbage.
>mfw someone says unstable 30 FPS is acceptable in the current year
At least Metroid Dread had the decency to run at 60 FPS.
PC outsells all consoles combined.
Ok vegan
Bullshit. The entire industry saw record profits last year. What's happening is a bunch of jobs became redundant. Possibly due to AI
It’s covid aftershock. AI is still ramping up and won’t break any economies for another 2-3 years
> own switch
> buy saints row 3/4, Skyrim, crysis, and assassins creed pirates for 80% off
> thanks to aaa stagnation these ten year old games are still state of the art or better (skull and bones lol)
> get all Nintendo games too
Literally no reason to buy other consoles anymore
Exactly. The novelty of playimg Dark Souls on a handheld still hasn't worn off, can't wait for Elden Ring on Switch 2 plus Zelda kino
nintendo never bought into live service games, nearly all of these layoffs are related to failed releases and cancellations of service games.
turns out the industry can’t support very many of these games at once considering the addict-like behavior that they rely upon to profit.
The monumental failure that was Suicide Squad really scared people off huh
Thinking back ten years, most mmos die early too. Probably for the same reason
They are israeli
>base your company off of video games and video game consoles
>put out video games for your video game console
>snoys are mindbroken because they can't understand this simple trick
It's so funny that Snoys have been conditioned over years to hate video games so much that they will actively ignore good and fun games like Helldivers 2 when Sony does actually put out a fun game once every blue moon
The ps5 does look pretty good as a useless room decoration
>doing well
Pokemon got ass raped by an indie studio called Pocket Pair.
The devs that just set the world record for negative player retention? The game literally nobody talks about after FOMO week?
oh okay, you have down syndrome, never mind.
Ok then you're losing to someone with down syndrome.
It's crazy how snoys are piggybacking off games they can't play.
It’s not like they can use FOAMSTARS to score any points lol. Or that Sony smash clone that died instantly a few years ago
I'm a PC gamer you fricking moron. I'm not like you, a favela dweller who can only afford a shitty tegra tablet.
Post your steam library
>He still hasn't posted it.
Every time, kek
That's Game Freak and Game Freak don't employ enough Staff to be able to lay anyone off
>ACgay doesn’t like cute girls in his games
>he feels threatened by fictional female characters
What a cuck!
What was his name again?
Alex Kidd.
you anons are fricking mean
My onahole
why do autists come to Ganker to suck off corporations
do you think sony or nintendo give a single frick about you? nintendo is suing an emulator guy.
You think Sony gives a single frick about you? They're promoting trannies in pride parades.
I listed both companies for a reason, you fricking moron lacking reading comprehension
Sorry you didn't win dragqueen of the year at Sony's Pride Parade, anon. Sure you'll get it next year. You gyratting gay.
Pocket Pair are expanding
I can only speak to my own ancedotal experience
>Brought an N64
Got Ocarina of Time, Wetris, DK64, MM, Smash, Mario Kart, 1080, Diddy Kong, Snowboard Kids, Paper Mario, Pokemon Stadium
>Brought a PSX
Absolute pile of games. Mostly ripped.
>Brought a GameCube
WW, Melee, Thousand Year Door, Twilight Princess, Mario Sunshine
>Brought a PS2
Absolutely massive pile of games. Mostly ripped. Probably at least 80 or so.
>Brought a Wii
Only ever played Rayman Origins, Okami and Mario Galaxy on it. Intended to play XBC but never found a copy
>Brought a Switch
Absolute pile of games, almost as many as I used to own for the PS2.
I wonder if today's gamers can imagine something like a Skateboarding game being the mainstream game that everyone played. Switch reminds me of some of that old PSX magic.
PChomosexuals be like
>nintendo makes shit games
>Proceed to pirate and play Nintendo games
They always do this. They also whin about games going woke while intentionally stealing from the nonwoke companies because they're the only games they want to play. It's just jogger-tier parasitism all the way through
what's wrong with pirating games?
The same problem as being black
> tfw no cute black gf
They didn't say anything was wrong with pirating
nothing, it's when you say (game) is shit and then talk about pirating it anyway
you may not be spending money doing it but you're still wasting time and energy over it
>you're still wasting time and energy over it
Kind of like being on Ganker and complaining about how awful it is
Depends on if the complaints about the game are constructive or not
Part of what makes Ganker engaging are the rare moments when you actually get to discuss game design instead of it being low-effort trolling and baiting
Valve is doing good.
Also post covid has any employment retraction for this market
>Doing well
They are doing ok, but:
>Weak moat
>ROI is erratic
>Board Stewardship is questionable at best
Objectively, it's kind of a bad company. You can see what happens when they get squeezed, they lean heavily into the legacy content.
Now, I like nintendo because they are doing something fun at least, but that's from a prospective of a gamer.
>Weak moat
How? They have the most iconic IP in the entire video game industry. If that's not a unique advantage, then nothing is.
>ROI is erratic
Compared to what? They've certainly been doing a lot better than other Japanese game companies.
>Board Stewardship is questionable at best
Considering how Nintendo is consistently beating its own optimistic predictions quarter after quarter, I think their board knows what they're doing.
>Objectively, it's kind of a bad company
https://www.psypost.org/straight-mens-physiological-stress-response-seeing-two-men-kissing-seeing-maggots/
People are fundamentally disgusted by homosexuality, and no amount of propaganda will convince otherwise. Gaystation and Gay-Box are both homosexual propaganda boxes. Nintendo has games. Many of those games are fun. Simple as.
MXT2
>switch can run P5R
>but can't run P3R due it being a new game
still makes me laugh
because they're based in Japan which didn't create a massive covid hiring bubble like US and EU did, so now that all that money dried up to fight proxy wars against Russia and the entire Middle East there's nothing to keep game devs making games no one wants to play up
The Nintendo cycle dictates that Switch 2 will flop
Can't wait for this obsession with patterns to be proven wrong.
What's gonna be the cope then?
What would you say if it turns out to be correct? A coincidence? There's a lot more competition in the portable console market than there was when the Switch launched and it looks like Sony is going to be releasing one that plays all PS4 games to boot. Not coming out until 2025 isn't good news, it means the hardware they picked will be more dated by then, and they no longer have 2 ecosystems to fall back on one
If for competition you mean stuff like the Steam Deck, those don't even sell as much as the Wii U.
As for Sony, the Vita didn't do too great either.
Sony isn't releasing any portable console that I'm aware of. They're releasing a peripheral phone that requires a console tether
>it looks like Sony is going to be releasing one that plays all PS4 games to boot
Anyone who believes modern Sony will go back to making handhelds is delusional.
The only reason Sony left the market is because it was assumed mobile was taking over and that portables were dead. As a reminder, Vita wasn't the only failure. 3DS is Nintendo's worst selling handheld and only sold half as much as the DS. Yet, Switch demonstrated there's still a viable market. You can't sell 140 million units of something without attracting competition
>The only reason Sony left the market is because it was assumed mobile was taking over and that portables were dead.
they left because the vita died. sony can't even supply games for their home console, why do you think they'd make a handheld?
every portable console they have made was a success
They had good people calling the shots, simple as that.
>breaking sales records
>still selling at a complete loss to the point where they're forced to go PC-third party much like the "loser"
>only put out woke pozed movie shit that nobody wants to play anyway
>"Winning"
ponies are brain-damaged
>tfw you lived long enough to see Nintendo become the bad guy
always have been, the moment they're on top they go back to their ways. Nintendo sued rental stores in the 80s
They make games their customers want.
more like they make games you buy to your kid or nephews
Well yeah, my sister's children are in their 20's now so of course as more functional adults than their mothers they'd want games, not movies for eternal teenagers.