Nintendo is very much a fiscally conservative company, so whether we agree or not or think we understand the costs fully or not, they dont see the return.īest case would be for them to license it all out to a smaller dev house and let them take all the costs and returns for a licensing payment. The Sub seemed like a compromise but Nintendo clearly drags ass on it because they don't want to invest that much. That's not Nintendo's business model, and to them, again, the return isnt enough to justify the efforts. That was the main reason people bought it. It has had multiple occasions where the whole thing was on sale for $5-$10. Nintendo prefers to piecemeal that shit and make you buy it a million times.Įven then look at the Sega Genesis Collection on Steam. We can argue the merits of the whole system, me personally I prefer stuff like Sega Ages or even large on disc collections.

Its not that they wouldnt sell in so far as that money used to do this work could and would get a better return being used elsewhere. You can definitely say Nintendo doesn't do it the best way and I'd agree, but you are delusional if you think the effort involved would meet a reasonable roi for Nintendo. I am saying the market itself isnt as big as people here think it is.

Did I say there was? Did I say anywhere that what they were doing was good? No, I just said people here have very little understanding of the actual demand compared to the investment needed by Nintendo.

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