31st January 2004, 8:05 PM
Huh? Isn't X-Box selling about even with Cube in the US?
Third-party wise, I am absolutely sure that X-Box games sell noticably better than Cube. If this was not true, we would not be seeing as many X-Box and PS2 games as we are... and we've got a lot of them. So for third parties in the US the X-Box is a better option than the GC. Nintendo sells well, but as usual it's mostly Nintendo-published games that do... yes, Nintendo is doing decently with the strategy they have now and a complete change would be bad, but they need to recognize each market is different, and that they can't ignore it. I know that Nintendo will never be as good for third parties as the competition, because their first-party games are always the highlights on their systems, but they CAN do better. And would be if they were smarter... better advertising, aiming more for the adult market with more products (certainly not all, but more than they are), online gaming (a more important thing in the West than in Japan, I think, which is why they ignore it...), lower development fees... not using a purple console with a handle as your main symbol...
Nintendo can probably survive doing what they are now, but they'll never move very far up. Especially if time passes and they still don't change, because more and more people are thinking that Nintendo is being left behind and moving to more "adult" systems...
Third-party wise, I am absolutely sure that X-Box games sell noticably better than Cube. If this was not true, we would not be seeing as many X-Box and PS2 games as we are... and we've got a lot of them. So for third parties in the US the X-Box is a better option than the GC. Nintendo sells well, but as usual it's mostly Nintendo-published games that do... yes, Nintendo is doing decently with the strategy they have now and a complete change would be bad, but they need to recognize each market is different, and that they can't ignore it. I know that Nintendo will never be as good for third parties as the competition, because their first-party games are always the highlights on their systems, but they CAN do better. And would be if they were smarter... better advertising, aiming more for the adult market with more products (certainly not all, but more than they are), online gaming (a more important thing in the West than in Japan, I think, which is why they ignore it...), lower development fees... not using a purple console with a handle as your main symbol...
Nintendo can probably survive doing what they are now, but they'll never move very far up. Especially if time passes and they still don't change, because more and more people are thinking that Nintendo is being left behind and moving to more "adult" systems...
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