This had a lot more to do with them suddenly shifting their priorities than the games having long dev cycles. A lot of them were planned for the Wii U but just redone for the Switch.
Like N64, Gamecube and Wii U?
In quality, never, from anyone.
Loved my Dreamcast. Fucking tragedy.stolen gif
Those consoles utterly lacked 3rd-party support. The N64 especially lost pretty much all major third-party devs and was solely carried by Nintendo studios.
Switch is successfull because it's a hybrid-handheld.
It being a handheld is certainly part of the appeal but Nintendo is also on their A-game with the Switch.
It's no longer possible for Nintendo to support two seperate ecosystems, but they don't want to abandon either the home console or handheld markets. So the hybrid approach makes sense.
It relied on Wii U ports for the first 18 months or so, not so much after that.
Yep. A perfect console has both an amazing first and THIRD party. Nintendo hasn't done good on the latter front since the SNES
Exactly different product market.
Please explain. Take as long as needed. I'm interested.
Good to know, but this is not what people will remember you for, Jimbo
Agreed.
Xbox going multiplat on ps during his tenure seems more memorable
I still regret not getting a couple sealed ones for $50 bucks in the early 00s when it was clear that it was piss easy to manufacture them.
Nintendo switch is the espiritual succesor of ps2?What an absolute monster it was. Fantastic system.
Remember the golden age of AAA games? Studios were scrappier and budgets were smaller and they took risks on innovative ideas. Today however AAA budgets have ballooned. Studios keep pouring more money into these massive games, even though completion rates are low. It's a cycle of diminishing returns.
Not even top 3 nintendo console.
Ding ding ding. One of the cheapest options as a DVD player. First to market vs the other two consoles. It was a loaded situation that Sony would go on to never repeat.
Yeah the mentality I want is "AAA indie games."
Give me 10 hours of meaningful content.
It isn't even a hybrid. It's a portable that can be plugged at the TV.I see the 'akshually it's a hybwid' defence force has arrived.
they will, eventually, its a number of sales in a growing industry, just give it time, PS2 sales aren't impressive because the number of consoles, they are impressive because they represent the level of dominance of the industry back then, in todays world the amount of gamers is immense compared to 20 years ago, 160 millions is a huge number of sales but doesnt represent the same percentage of gamers as 20 years ago, back then there wasnt smartphones, PC games market was very small among other things, selling 160 millions was monstrous back then, but today it doesnt have the same meaning, its a similar situation to the NES numbers (61 millions?) you can sell that same quantity and nobody cares as much, you can even sell double that but you cannot have the level of dominance NES had back then
I would say, DVD player.
Shipped versus sold. Sony always stressed the "shipped" and suddenly they say "sold"? I would agree that they are pushing the goal but it has never bothered Nintendo, they were less than 3m DS away from taking the number one spot and didn't bother shipping them.
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160m is probably the units they produced.
Well if they knew, then why wasn't the figure reported earlier
its been a different person stating numbers each time when shawn layden stated he was looking at sell through. Jim being a suit is looking at units produced which in turn sold out at some point.
