Record Profits for Nintendo

The only thing my Wii gets used for is Tomb raider and Resident Evil 4. Even the missus and the boy spend more time on the 360 and PS3 than they do on the Wii.
 
What exactly do sales have to do with it? Im sure Girls Aloud or whatever the latest fad is out sell lots of much better bands, does that make them proper music?
 
vonhelmet said:
Call me when the Grand Theft Auto series sells more copies than Tetris, then tell me what a proper game is.
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Nintendo didnt make tetris, even my mum knows that.

Or are we talking about "games" in general.

I didnt like Tetris either, it got on my wick.

Hexic (written by the same guy) i can get on with.
 
Wrathamon said:
Nintendo have released their financial figures for the last year (april2007-march2008), with a sales turnover of $16billion (1670billion yen), they've made $2.5billion profit (257 billion yen).

Go Nintendo! :)

Other few facts:

24.45 million Wii sold in total, with a game attach rate of 6.07games/wii

70.6 million SD sold in total, with a game attach rate of 5.24games/ds

Wii production ramping up to 2.4 million per month in the summer (currently 1.8 million per month)
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blimey. who says ninty arent successful lol
 
Jihad said:
Play GTA IV then say that! It's the next step up for games.
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This for me proves you know nothing about gaming.


Nintendo changed the way games are played and who plays them overnight. They deserve this.

I still remember the first time I played Super Mario 64 on the N64. Miles ahead of the competition.
 
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vonhelmet said:
I'm sorry, I'm drunk, you're going to have to spell out the point that you're making, because it's really not apparent.
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I typed out a whole great big response, but ive just deleted it ill say it like this:

Nintendo didnt write Tetris, the game was also bundled with the gameboy and i would suggest a whole load of the umteen million copies of the game have never even seen the inside of the gameboy they shipped with.
It wasnt a great game, it was a free game.
Selling lots doesnt mean good, or make it comparable to more complicated but lower selling titles.

Some simple games are brilliant and ship lots and are played lots.
 
People go on and on about how its good that Nintendo are getting more people into gaming, but is this genuinely a good thing? I like that gaming isn't done by everybody. Im worried that if everyone gets into gaming companies will start to realise that people lap up endless brain training clones, Sims expansions and *generic mini game compilation* What happens if we stop seeing "hardcore" games like Bioshock, Oblivion, Portal and stuff because the masses don't play those?
 
atpbx said:
When did they do this?
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For me, it was one xmas day when I watched my grandmother play wii tennis. Pull your head out the sand.

To say tetris wasn't a great game proves that you also know nothing about gaming. Maybe you didn't like it but that doesn't mean it wasn't a great game.
 
Shamikebab said:
People go on and on about how its good that Nintendo are getting more people into gaming, but is this genuinely a good thing? I like that gaming isn't done by everybody. Im worried that if everyone gets into gaming companies will start to realise that people lap up endless brain training clones, Sims expansions and *generic mini game compilation* What happens if we stop seeing "hardcore" games like Bioshock, Oblivion, Portal and stuff because the masses don't play those?
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So you're primary motivation for gaming is because it makes you different from Mr Smith next door?

I don't care how popular they make gaming, for me the more people playing games the better - it means the market increases in size, more people are buying games, more variety, more developers taking a chance on a slightly different game because what is still a niche in the gaming market becomes a viable niche to develop for.

I don't think there is any threat of "hardcore" games that rely largely on pretty graphics to get by.
As for Portal being "hardcore", I wouldn't say that, I would say it's a (very) successful attempt at making a new way to play a standard genre* (in some ways Portal is a lot simpler than some of the DS games) - something Nintendo have been trying with both the Wii and the DS.
The "point and click" has already been resurrected on the DS with a twist or three, a genre I though had pretty much died out years ago.

If anything I can see both Sony and MS desperately trying to get in on the (working) motion sensor controllers for games, to incorporate them into their pretty games if the Wii's success continues, and Nintendo continue to pull in more "non gamers" (many of whom are non gamers because in the past there haven't been games that have appealed to them enough to buy a console).


In short, far from worrying that the Nintendo is going to lead to the death of the gaming market, I think they are more likely to lead to the birth of a new and expanded gaming market - with a whole heap of new games appealing to more people (which may even mean the PS4 and Xbox720 might debut at a lower price point than seems to be the norm now if the potential market is bigger).


*I Fully expect to see "portals" being used in a number of FPS games in about a year to 18 months or so.
 
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