7th March 2004, 12:12 PM
Quote:The fact you think that proves that you have serious comprehension issues! As I said, I am uncertain.
This was my first statement.
You seem to have forgetting about:
Quote:Morons... it's not that complex...
Nintendo did well last year. Yes, the price cut probably was more important than the game lineup and I shouldn't have forgotten that in that first post, but the fact remains -- last year they did well. They overcame having a weak first 9 months lineup and finished very strong (game lineup as well as sales of course). Now of course as I said all companies these days backload their schedules and christmas is overloaded with games. However, I was trying to say that Sony and MS both have third parties to help fill in those gaps. They still release fair numbers of games even in spring because of the vastly larger game schedules. Nintendo doesn't have that so their already sparse lineup looks even barer without that third party support. So we got like four games last month. Did Sony produce far more first-party-published titles? I don't know but I bet it's not dramatic. But because of all those third party games...
You start out disagreeing and then who knows what the hell you say afterwards. You make no sense!
Quote:The 'all in the last 3 months' thing worked great by a overall sales perspective. Now as I said I admit that I should have mentioned the price drope here but that doesn't really affect my point that much... maybe you are confused because I am not certain about what the right course should be. I mean, as I detailed I hate how we have so few games in the first 9 months and definitely think that it hurts Nintendo in sales for most of the year, but my concern is how many resources they have. Nintendo needs to be able to put up a strong fight at the holidays, with a lineup equal to its competition. Due to lack of third party titles they need to make a lot of the games themselves. They can only make so many games.
When only two or three of their games sell well during those three months then you know it's obviously not working for them. And since when did Nintendo have a drastically worse third-party lineup? They had all of the big third party games! Prince of Persia, BG&E, Soul Calibur, etc. Aside from SC2 there really weren't any huge third-party sellers last holiday season. Can can you imagine what would have happened if Wind Waker came out in November instead of March? It would have made Nintendo's smaller games sell even worse.