They used to be the weird genius, but they’ve become the greedy freaks.
Nintendo’s been this way for as long as I’ve been alive, though. They always succeed in spite of being greedy assholes because the average person simply doesn’t care.
I wouldn’t call the Virtual Boy, Wii U or maybe even the GameCube and N64 successes when compared to their contemporaries though. Not saying they aren’t greedy, but they do miss occasionally
N64 and GameCube were a huge success.
when compared to their contemporaries
Platform Type Company Released Units sold
PlayStation Home Sony 1994 102.49 million
Nintendo 64 Home Nintendo 1996 32.93 million
N64 v PS1 is an almost 70million sale difference.
PlayStation 2 Home Sony 2000 160.63 million
Xbox Home Microsoft 2001 24 million
Nintendo GameCube Home Nintendo 2001 21.74 million
GCN v PS2 is even larger at an almost 140mil sale difference. Even Xbox had them beat by almost 3mil
Okay and people often had both. Point still stands that N64 and GameCube were household names at the time. Break out by region and the numbers are closer.
No one is saying they sold more. Plus the PS2 was still being sold even after the PS4 was made. From a financial perspective they sold just fine at the time in most countries.
Or rather everyone else has stopped way below so that Nintendo is still at the top.
Nintendo repeatedly pushed back plans for the Switch 2’s launch after its designers asked for more time to perfect the games that would accompany the new hardware, according to people familiar with the matter.
That’s an interesting tid bit.
