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Saving Nintendo

Nintendo has faced difficulties in the recent years with slumping sales and falling third party support. Is there a way for them to turn it around? Nintendo already has plans in the works. But if they do two more simple things, they would have a much better chance at succeeding

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MichaelZack4422d ago

Iwata, president of Nintendo, would disagree with you, as he's taking steps to save the failing Wii U and change the course of the company.

DanManDantheMan4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Wii U isn't Nintendo. But I guess I'm not too sure what kind of writing quality I expected out of this site. Nintendo itself is fine thanks to the fact that every single platform they made was profitable with others having huge success, such as the 3DS right now.

Wii U is just a flat tire that's having a hard time reinflating. It's not taking down the company with it.

MichaelZack4422d ago

Dan...

Take a look at the article for yourself

DanManDantheMan4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Yes, it was not a good read. It was especially hard to watch you refer to the Wii U as Nintendo repeatedly.

RPG_Lover4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Nintendo does not need saving. This guys "articles" if you even want to call them that, are terrible. Devoid of fact, reason, and worse of all substance.

Just terribly written. Sensationalized headline.

I will give one example why this article is beyond hope

"I felt they abandoned their core gamer market with the Nintendo Wii"

So is that why the Wii saw

Fire Emblem
Sin and punishment 2
Punch out
Metroid
Zelda
Mario
Kirby
Dk

Because they abandoned the core?

FYI, Nintendo put more core titles on Wii than any console they had previously supported. THAT is fact.

I also love it how this stupid article compares Nintendo to other companies not nearly in the same position as them to try and rationalize his ridiculous arguement.

MichaelZack4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Nintendo was the one who talked about how they abandoned their core market by no longer targeting them in their marketing plan. Take a look at the documents for yourself. I included them for a reason.

Edit for RPG_Lover: No marketing plan would ever say "we abandoned our core market." The point of a marketing plan is to target a specific group. When that group is no longer targeted, they are not being specifically addressed.

RPG_Lover4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Nintendo never said "we abandoned their core market" EVER.

Not making them the singular priority in the marketing plan does not mean "we abandonded" the core market.

And even if they said that. The REALITY of the situation was much much different.

Nintendo achieved there highest sales ever of core titles, catering more of there output to the core.

Mario titles sold more, Zelda sold more, smash sold more, even freaking fire emblem sold more.

No offense but I will not be able to take anything your site says seriously if you continue on with these bad blogs........

mcstorm4422d ago

@RPG_Lover tbh core gamers is a very small market. If you look at last gen COD was the best selling IP by a long way but that was not because it was a core game. It was because this is the game everyone wanted and enjoyed.

Nintendo IP's sell very well on there own. If you look back at past console sales Nintendo may not of had the most sales in terms of consoles sold but there own IP's have often outsold Sony's and Microsoft's apart form GT and Halo as these are the big named games like Mario Kart is for Nintendo.

Nintendo don't need saving they just need to give the WiiU more ad time. It has a great lineup of games and some of the biggest 3rd party IP's too but all of them need to work together to show what the WiiU version has over the xbox one and PS4 version. For example 2 player on COD one playing on the TV the other on the game pad.

This is Nintendo's biggest issue with the Wiiu right now not the lack of games or power but having it noticed a bit like when the 3DS came out.

JohnHeatz4422d ago

I agree with you on this one mcstorm, however, one issue they might be having is the fact that, due to bad sales on AAA titles, developers aren't that interested in developing games for it. But well, Watch Dogs will be coming to the Wii U some time after its release on every other platform...

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory4422d ago

Actually Pokemon and Mario as whole is Nintendo best-seller.

Jarrettjawn4422d ago

What are Nintendo "core" titles? Are they first party titles? Are they long running brands?

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory4422d ago

Classic 2D + 3D Super Mario + Mario Kart + Mario & Luigi RPG and SMRPG
Donkey Kong Country
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Punch Out!!
Kid Icarus
F-Zero
Srar Fox
Fire Emblem
Advance Wars
Pikmin
Sin & Punishment
Eternal Darkness
Baten Kaitos
Geist
Disaster Day of Crisiis
Xenoblade - X
Pandora's Tower
The Last Story
The Wonderful 101
Earthbound/Mothers
Pokemon
Golden Sun
Custom Robo

Need I list more

Dudebro904422d ago

Another dumb piece with wrong information.

Do some research before you make dumb claims.

eaise4422d ago

Why are articles like this still being approved?
This is the same stupid made up information that has been in the other 100 articles that say "do this to save Nintendo"
Nintendo is not in trouble. It is better financially than either of the other two

Dunban674422d ago

Well written and much more objective than the blindly obedient Nintendo fans that won t acknowledge the obvious - even hen Nintendo itself does

One thing I don t understand is if a person cares for a console and/ or games company, then why support thier bad decisions and/ or errant direction?

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7725d ago (Edited 25d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer50d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi49d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure49d ago (Edited 49d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer50d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot50d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box49d ago (Edited 49d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno50d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay50d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno48d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK48d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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