And you will, in all likelihood, never play Goldeneye on it. It's stuck in licensing hell. Nintendo published it, Rare developed it and 007 needs to be licensed from EON (which neither Nintendo nor Rare has the rights to distribute currently).
tbh, I'd bet Goldeneye will be re-released within the next decade. Nothing too weird's off the table if someone can make money. shrugs
Well i have 5 "REALLLLLLY wants/probably getting" for October. Already had to shave 2 off my list since it'll be impossible to get them all. Considering shaving off another. Just not enough time or cash flow. No time to recoop after the 4-5 I'll be getting in September( I'm counting astral chain, because it's that close to September).
Its insanely hard maintaining a master list of games releasing without mixing a few up, especially with dates shuffling and what not.
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Nintendo still makes a ton of money off hardware alone! Whether through profit from the console alone, online subscriptions, cuts from the revenue of third party games, etc. They’re not still in the console race, because “people would hate (it if they left)”, but because it makes lots of money.
I’m sure whatever money is lost from not releasing their games on multiple platforms is more than made up by being a console manufacturer and all the perks that come with that.
I doubt whether hardware sales are actually what makes Nintendo rich. It's the software sales that counts. And since Nintendo publishes their titles on their own system, they make more money from software sales: 1) they don't have to pay platform holders and 2) they earn money from 3rd parties paying Nintendo as a platform holder.
I think Switch risks spoiling us for game releases to the point any release schedule on future systems is going to feel lame. Switch is getting so many games because Nintendo missed out on the last 4 generations of 3rd party releases. This is the first viable platform from Nintendo for third party console games in the last 25 years. So everything‘s coming home to roost at once.
But next generation they won’t have that advantage anymore. And that’s fine, but compared to the insane release lineup we’re seeing now I don’t think anything will ever be able to live up to it again. Not unless they go full power console with x86 for automatic multiplats of 95% of releases (and I don’t see that happening, plus that would be pretty boring because I’d have no reason to buy 3rd party games on the system then).
I guess what I’m saying is, enjoy it while it lasts.
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I think that’s actually a Netflix release date. I googled each games release date but probably mixed that one up with the Netflix release.
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@JaxonH Pretty sure even with the existence of the insane lineup this fall, if early 2020 is on the slower side like early 2019 was the reactions will be as if fall 2019's lineup didn't exist.
As for Dark Crystal, I checked and yes the Netflix series starts August 30th not the game release.
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Yea, I think software sales and some of the stuff you mentioned (that not everyone always thinks about) is what really establishes long-term cash flow for Nintendo (and Sony, MS). Yea, at 300 bucks a pop, hardware sales are definitely nice chunks of cash, but for most people they will only buy one of your consoles per generation. So, I buy the Switch once for 300 bucks, but I spend thousands on software over the course of 5 years.
And hardware development and support probably costs boatloads of money. That's why we always have those discussions about selling at loss or profit when a new console comes around.
So yea, software is where it's at. And it's probably a safe bet to say, as others have mentioned, that Nintendo would be THE premier third-party dev if they ever went that direction. They very well could make WAY more money than they're making now without the cost of hardware dev, manufacturing, and upkeep weighing them down. And with the ever-present greed of shareholders, I'm surprised the company hasn't been forced into it already.
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Yea, I think software sales and some of the stuff you mentioned (that not everyone always thinks about) is what really establishes long-term cash flow for Nintendo (and Sony, MS). Yea, at 300 bucks a pop, hardware sales are definitely nice chunks of cash, but for most people they will only buy one of your consoles per generation. So, I buy the Switch once for 300 bucks, but I spend thousands on software over the course of 5 years.
And hardware development and support probably costs boatloads of money. That's why we always have those discussions about selling at loss or profit when a new console comes around.
So yea, software is where it's at. And it's probably a safe bet to say, as others have mentioned, that Nintendo would be THE premier third-party dev if they ever went that direction. They very well could make WAY more money than they're making now without the cost of hardware dev, manufacturing, and upkeep weighing them down. And with the ever-present greed of shareholders, I'm surprised the company hasn't been forced into it already.
I feel like after september most of the answers in the "how do you handle your backlog thread" are going to be "I don't." or "denial" or "send HALP"!
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You know though, I never once hear people talk about the possibility of Nintendo opening their OWN PC storefront where they get all the money and don't have anyone to pay licencing fees to. People make a big stink about Epic Store, but people would also be willing to pay Nintendo money for an extremely barebones store just to play their games.
Although I wouldn't let current-gen games on it, at least up to GameCube games could possibly be sold. They could even be sold as glorified ROMs and they'd probably make a big amount of money doing so.
But eh, I'm no businessman.
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@Ryu_Niiyama I'm trying to cram a few backlog games i really want to play now until next Friday ( chain day). I'm aggressively going to play final fantasy adventure, crash Bandicoot 2, and mega man 11 hopefully this next week and a half. Sure there's other backlog games i can play but those are priority backlog games for me. Oh, plus I need to finish doom 2. Almost done with it. If i can finish these games by at least the end of September while keeping up with astral chain, creature in the well, ori, and links awakening, I'll be a happy camper. Ugh... Kinda want contra and spyro too though 😠. Must....resist.....
I think I’m just going to nab Zelda and Luigi on release, and wait on any others. I’ve had too many surprise expenses lately.
I would like Astral an Spyro, though. And probably Witcher.
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@Ryu_Niiyama For me it's becoming a question of what games not to buy at launch which has been made a much harder question by the fact that Fire Emblem Three Houses has been out of stock in the UK for the past few weeks so if I didn't get that at launch who knows when I would've got it.
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