KojiKnight
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PC gaming is primarily a hardcore base, who are what Nintendo is not interested in.
This is so far from the truth it's silly.
PC gaming is primarily a hardcore base, who are what Nintendo is not interested in.
The huge majority of gamers on PCs play very casual titles through Facebook and mobile.PC gaming is primarily a hardcore base, who are what Nintendo is not interested in.
So why haven't Sony and Microsoft done this as well if it's such an easy to to "rake in millions"?
So why haven't Sony and Microsoft done this as well if it's such an easy to to "rake in millions"?
So why haven't Sony and Microsoft done this as well if it's such an easy to to "rake in millions"?
I would buy every Nintendo game on Steam.
Nintendo´s power are the games but the hardware and online system are the weak points, on PC you get the hardware and Steam helps with the online System.
I bet valve would love to make a deal with Nintendo for Nintendo games on Steam, while Ninteno gets more than the normal 70% cut from each sale. Nintendo could sell a Nintendo branded Steambox xD
Imagine what Valve + Nintendo could do with Mario Kart or Smash Bros.
Nintendo has no idea what they're doing so this will never happen.
Nintendo would rather PC gamers continue pirating and emulating all of their games and not giving them any money rather than swallow their pride and release native versions of them on Steam and rake in millions of dollars in additional revenue.
You'd be surprised how many hardcore PC gamers are also Nintendo fans, however I think expecting contemporary Nintendo games on the platform is absurd..
So then buy their console! You'll have access to their games, comfy couch gaming , and the controller you're all salivating over!
Why is the group that spends $$$ on graphics cards and mother boards so cheap over buying a gaming system?
I haven't had any kind of malware infection on any of my Windows or Linux boxes in years. The supposed improved security of a "micro-os" don't sound worth the significant performance tradeoffs and complete lack of openness and customizability of the OS.
The huge majority of gamers on PCs play very casual titles through Facebook and mobile.
A PC eshop would be more likely than Nintendo "joining" Steam. Nintendo is clearly not big on aggressive deals and having their own shop means they keep 100% of the money.I would buy every Nintendo game on Steam.
Nintendo´s power are the games but the hardware and online system are the weak points, on PC you get the hardware and Steam helps with the online System.
I bet valve would love to make a deal with Nintendo for Nintendo games on Steam, while Ninteno gets more than the normal 70% cut from each sale. Nintendo could sell a Nintendo branded Steambox xD
Imagine what Valve + Nintendo could do with Mario Kart or Smash Bros.
Also a Pokemon MOBA would be cool.
So then buy their console! You'll have access to their games, comfy couch gaming , and the controller you're all salivating over!
Why is the group that spends $$$ on graphics cards and mother boards so cheap over buying a gaming system?
Nintendo barely understands the internet or a basic account system. A Nintendo OS on PC would be a nightmare.
There's nothing more antagonistic than Nintendo and PC gaming. So who knows, maybe if Iwata goes nuts..
.They will expand into mobile gaming before PC gaming, and they really don't want to expand into mobile gaming...
Also a Pokemon MOBA would be cool.
I'm going to have to disagree. They are special, and the greatest videogame developer in history.Or they just do what every other 3rd party does. No micro-OS crap.
Nintendo isn't special.
General PC is not a growth market and Nintendo needs not put resources there.
John Peddie Research is forecasting growth in one segment of the market: gaming hardware. JPR expects 2013's PC gaming hardware sales to be 3% below last year's levels, but it anticipates 6.5% growth in 2014 and continued expansion through 2016.
Continuing, Santos (CEO of Falcon Northwest) tells me that “on average most of our customers that are high-end gamers spend around $4k or more.” Surely that’s an anomaly, right? Back over to Reeves at Falcon Northwest: “Our ASP [average sale price] this year is $4,100. An interesting data point: we’ve seen a 16% increase in customer spending on the GPU this year over last.”
Nvidia’s GPU gaming revenues are up 6% year to date compared to the same period last year, while mobile GPU gaming has more than doubled in the last two years. Even as overall notebook shipments have declined, Nvidia’s gaming notebook revenue more than doubled in the last two years. The company claims that notebook gaming is the fastest growing PC SKU that it currently serves. [1]
And now I don't want Nintendo anywhere near PC's all of a sudden.
Pokemon MMO is all I want Nintendo to do on PC.
I'd buy their games. I've had every Nintendo platform save for the dark SNES days, when my dad left and my mom had to support 3 kids on $30,000 a year and the Wii U. I always said I'd get a Wii U when the games appeared, but now it just doesn't seem like a good investment.
I know there's a fat chance I'll see these games on my PC, but it's money left on the table for Nintendo at this point. Hell, I'd even purchase their (reasonably priced) back catalog games that are easily emulated.
People always say this, but is it really?
Right now they don't pay anyone licensing fees and they make money off of hardware sold plus they make licensing fees on third party software sold.
People always say this, but is it really?
Right now they don't pay anyone licensing fees and they make money off of hardware sold plus they make licensing fees on third party software sold.
They also greatly reduce their development budgets by having systems that they design and can work on very easily and quickly.
It really doesn't matter though. That's still revenue earned as opposed to lost by giving anything to Valve or any other distributor. Plus it doesn't negate my other points. Nintendo has absolutely not reason to develop for PCs over their own hardware. None. Zero. Zilch. And Microsoft and Sony agree with this.We've been over this.
The Wii U hardware costs Nintendo money. They lose money on every Wii U sold.
There are no licensing fees to make on third party Wii U software sales because there is barely any third party Wii U software. If you added up the sales totals for every third party game on the Wii U and combined them all into one number I bet it would be less than the sales of one Call of Duty title.
Before I would've fully agreed with you but someone in another thread brought up an excellent analysis of their revenue.
Overall those 3rd party royalties for the past 14 years amount to 8% of Nintendo's operating income. Money is money but collecting royalties isn't a compelling reason to me anymore. Avoiding paying royalties for half your operating income otoh still remains as a compelling reason for me.
Ninty could still make a console while supporting PC ecosystem. There is still value in just having fixed hardware that would be more cost efficient to buy than a PC upgrade and knowing you have dedicated hardware that would work without problems.