Nintendo's Early 2005 Strategy

Gamespot has an overview of Nintendo's strategy for the next few months. DS sales, female users, and penetration of the older market is up, while DS software sales are down owing to bundled software. The Big N is still trying to decide how much information to share about the Revolution at E3. From the article: "We want to receive some level of evaluation, but releasing too much information is also another issue. We don't have the slightest intention of making a machine that follows the same path as conventional game hardware."

Comments

Could this be it?

[dmauro]

Someone found something of interest that could possibly be linked to the Revolution on the Penny Arcade Forums. It's probably not directly linked, but it may share similar technologies with the upcoming Revolution.

Did you have to say

[the_skywise]

"female users and penetration of new markets..."

together like that?

Bundled Software?

[Dragoon412]

Bundled software my ass...

DS sales are going down because there's been all of like 3 games released since the already-weak list of launch titles.

Re:Bundled Software?

[fwitness]

Yes, and this is really beginning to piss off this Nintendo customer. I RTFA and I couldn't help thinking "What bundled software? Oh, the *demo*?" Yeah, it was great but 20 minutes later you need a game.

It's been well over a month since I got my DS and I've been dying to buy a game for it, but there are none. I've been thinking of buying Mr. Driller for lack of good stuff. Maybe animal keeper or whatever it's called but it was overpriced.

Re:Nintendo's fate

[NanoGator]

"Many disputed this assertion, but Nintendo has become increasingly reliant upon its existing franchises- especially Mario and Zelda (and to a lesser extent, Smash Bros. which includes both)"

It's disputed because Nintendo has 6 billion in the bank to play with, whereas Sega had to drop the Dreamcast because they didn't have the money they needed to build DC units to sell. A million units cost like 200 million to build, and they didn't have the money.

"Gamecube simply can't compete."

It doesn't need to compete, it merely needs to make a profit. Since Nintendo's franchises are successful, they're not having a prob with that. They really should try to get more marketshare, but they're a long ways off from being the next Sega.

N still trying to decide on information...

[AzraelKans]

From the article:The Big N is still trying to decide on information to reveal on the e3

Translation: They are weighting if they should let their fans know about the GBA Evolution so they dont buy PSP's OR let the sales for the DS rise a bit more first (they're aparently taking option b) .

p.s. Please notice no new titles for the DS other than those already produced (metroid, puppies) were mentioned. The talk immediately went to the new rehash for the GBA instead.