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by InclinedPlane
5255 days ago
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The situations are very much comparable. Nintendo may have a lot more buffer than Sega did but it is still fighting an uphill battle now. The time to pivot is not when you've hit rock bottom, it's not even when you have peaked, it's when you've past the inflection point, well before you've peaked. And Nintendo is already well past that point. They are seeing incredibly robust competition for every aspect of their business: casual and party games, motion based games, mobile gaming, etc. The core strength of Nintendo, which has aided them in past attempts at pivoting, is their 1st party IP: Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, etc. But that will only get them so far, and won't save them if they make serious strategic blunders or fail to keep up with the competition. Nintendo still has options now, but will they still have those options in 5 or 10 years? |
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