GigaBowser
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ms and sony wanna make portables now and ms the biggest publisher annnnnnnd wants to give switch 2 third party
what do you think my friends are they competing??
what do you think my friends are they competing??
is it true nintendos not competing??
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Insanemaelstrom
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Personally, currently I think pc and Nintendo are competitors to Xbox and playstation. They are all places wherein you can play games and considering the limited time I have, they are all competing for my time.
Ironman_Bad
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GigaBowser
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GigaBowser
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genius I believe this you are smart enough to understand
kevboard
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Nintendo aren't competing, they took a left turn at just the right moment.
stationary home consoles are a dying breed. PC is slowly eating their playerbase as most devs now make most of their money on PC.
the moment Valve releases a powerful and somewhat affordable Steam Console, or the moment Microsoft makes Windows controller friendly (dedicated game mode), whichever happens first (let's be real, Microsoft won't get their asses moving faster than Valve lol) consoles are fucked.
Nintendo having a system that can be used as a companion to your PC will mean it will survive longer than the rest.
stationary home consoles are a dying breed. PC is slowly eating their playerbase as most devs now make most of their money on PC.
the moment Valve releases a powerful and somewhat affordable Steam Console, or the moment Microsoft makes Windows controller friendly (dedicated game mode), whichever happens first (let's be real, Microsoft won't get their asses moving faster than Valve lol) consoles are fucked.
Nintendo having a system that can be used as a companion to your PC will mean it will survive longer than the rest.
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DenchDeckard
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Nintendo operates ina different stratosphere to MS and Sony.
They are almost like Lego or some shit. Yes, you can buy mega blocks and say they are in the build a brick category.....but there's only one lego.
There's only one Nintendo.
They are almost like Lego or some shit. Yes, you can buy mega blocks and say they are in the build a brick category.....but there's only one lego.
There's only one Nintendo.
DKPOWPOW
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Never stopped, they just chose a different path. Doesn't change the fact that it's all video games and hardware to play them. Nintendo read the room and saw they didn't have the means to sell hardware at a loss, develop games with massive budgets and risk it all. They had to do things their way, look at this industry. A few big flops from other publishers and they are at risk of bankruptcy. Nintendo has to make money from games, yes their IP is strong, but the games drive the IP's popularity. Their own console ensures they make the absolute most from their games.
Their hardware is cheap, the budgets are low, the risk is lower, the profits can be absolutely nuts. 70 million copies of Mario Kart 8. At $50 a pop that is over $3 billion from a game made over 10 years ago. It probably covered half the budgets of all the Switch games Nintendo published in the past 5 years. And they published a lot.
Tears of the Kingdom revenue was over $1.4 billion dollars with 20 million copies sold. 2 games made $5 billion dollars. Nintendo has like.. what 5-10 games that sold over 20 million copies?
Games compete with games,
But entertainment as a whole competes for your time and money.
Their hardware is cheap, the budgets are low, the risk is lower, the profits can be absolutely nuts. 70 million copies of Mario Kart 8. At $50 a pop that is over $3 billion from a game made over 10 years ago. It probably covered half the budgets of all the Switch games Nintendo published in the past 5 years. And they published a lot.
Tears of the Kingdom revenue was over $1.4 billion dollars with 20 million copies sold. 2 games made $5 billion dollars. Nintendo has like.. what 5-10 games that sold over 20 million copies?
Games compete with games,
But entertainment as a whole competes for your time and money.
Ritsumei2020
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Nintendo is competing for your cash
Miyazaki’s Slave
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They will be competing internally for sure. They have so many new areas of entertainment they are branching into. If their next movie is a hit and their theme parks take off, then no, they will not competing with Sony of MS.
From an IP perspective they do not have competition form the other traditional players…Disney will be their chief competitors of their "transmedia" approach takes off.
From an IP perspective they do not have competition form the other traditional players…Disney will be their chief competitors of their "transmedia" approach takes off.
Killjoy-NL
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They're always competing, but Playstation and Xbox are fighting over pretty much the exact same demographic.ms sony annnnd nintendos always say nintendos not competing with them
In that sense, Nintendo is doing it's own thing.
Looking at the gaming industry as a whole, all platforms compete with eachother.
WhiteWaterM00se
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Well…they are in the same physical space area of stores, they all have shareholders, and they all compete for certain demographics, and they all have online memberships, yes they compete.
MrJangles
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GigaBowser
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keefged4
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Killjoy-NL
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Then nothing. All will be the same. Only Xbox has become irrelevant.buuut if they gets mostly the same third partys this time then what?
Topher
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buuut if they gets mostly the same third partys this time then what?
If having the same third parties is the metric then Switch is not currently fully competing with MS and Sony. Time will tell with Switch 2.
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BlackTron
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Money is spent in the present, not the past.
Impotaku
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Lol pretty much, along with that other delusional gem that the switch isn't a real home console.
LordOcidax
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It depends OP, if the console sale more than 100 million they are not competing, if is a fail they are competing… Imagine that the scariest moment for your company was the fear of a announcement of a company that you don't consider your competitor…
Bert Big Balls
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I'm sorry, what?
BlackTron
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I somewhat disagree that the demographics being fought over are very much different today.
Nintendo has successfully expanded beyond the "kiddie" stigma to adult buyers. Meanwhile a Playstation is very coveted by young people.
They're all competing. Software? So PC and Mac were not competing because they ran different software?
They're all vying for the same time and dollars. But, feel free to tweak as needed as a sleep aid.
Nintendo has successfully expanded beyond the "kiddie" stigma to adult buyers. Meanwhile a Playstation is very coveted by young people.
They're all competing. Software? So PC and Mac were not competing because they ran different software?
They're all vying for the same time and dollars. But, feel free to tweak as needed as a sleep aid.
Topher
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LordOcidax
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buuut if they gets mostly the same third partys this time then what?
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Cyberpunkd
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Yes, they are. Also with everything that involves your free time.
Angry_Megalodon
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The competition in the courtrooms is tight.
Damigos
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i dont know the question either, but the answer is they are competing
They do compete, they just do their best and be the first to do their own thing and others follow their ideas. Their gimmick ideas usually pays off. Forget their consoles specs, they are most likely out of other 2 platforms who spend the most on games in a meaningful way, we saw that in 360,ps1, 2,3 era and it's been rarely the case these days cause that's what usually gives a console a meaning to be frank.
BlackTron
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I had to read it a few times too lol. He's being sarcastic.
If it sells over 100 million => don't worry about it, they aren't in direct competition anyway
If sales are poor => haha they tried to compete and failed
saintjules
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Sometimes threads like this makes you want a feature where threads require mod approval before they go live.
dragonyeuw
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Nintendo, like any for profit company, operates under a 'buy our thing, not the other person's thing' strategy. Within the context of my gaming budget, a decision to buy a Nintendo game usually means I'm not buying something on a different platform ( at least at that point in time). They are most definitely competing for my time and money even if they're not employing the same strategy as Sony/MS to get those resources.
veterangamerUK
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The phrase "the eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed" certainly applies to the op!