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Nintendo says the success of its new Switch console will help it to double annual profits.
It has become the fastest-selling games console in the Japanese firm's history, with 2.7 million units bought in March - the first month it was available.
But Nintendo's profit estimate of 65bn yen ($583.9m; £453m) for the year to March 2018 was below market forecasts.
Like other console makers, Nintendo is having to counter the rise of the smartphone as a tool for gaming.
And because - unlike Sony and Microsoft - Nintendo relies on games and consoles for almost all its sales, it is arguably more vulnerable to this trend.
Does gaming on phones really cannibalize gaming on consoles and PCs, or is it in addition to?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @06:13AM (5 children)
Yup, its the Disney method to profits. Zelda and to a lesser extent Mario are their cash cows, yes people will buy the console just for those games, so a $50-75 dollar game becomes $350-375, and then a couple of obligatory other games to make the system more versatile... load of crap
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday April 28 2017, @06:26AM
True. I've bought four of their consoles to play Zelda games. Admittedly, they were all bought second-hand, so my contributions to Nintendo's shareholders are not as substantial as they might have been.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @07:15AM (3 children)
Barely different than buying a $300 dedicated GPU (not the whole general purpose PC that can do spreadsheets) to play a particular game or two, and more later as they are released.
The consoles now have web browsers and integration with Netflix [bgr.com] so you can theoretically use them for more than just the one hot launch title.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Friday April 28 2017, @08:01AM (1 child)
No, I don't know any PC gamers that exclusively run a couple of games and never touch them again. Consoles however have little general purpose, Netflix sure but web browser? Without a keyboard and mouse you gotta be kidding!
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @12:34PM
I've known people that will specifically upgrade or pay the Window's tax so that they can play a certain game. Now, they also typically will play other games as well but that is also the case for consoles.
As for general use, there were some that would end up using their gaming rig for heavy duty video/image/sound editing but the majority just let that extra power sit unused as they browse the internet.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday April 28 2017, @01:39PM
Barely different than buying a $300 dedicated GPU (not the whole general purpose PC that can do spreadsheets) to play a particular game or two
If your PC is a laptop, then you do in fact need "the whole general purpose PC" because laptops aren't nearly as expandable as desktops. Or has it become common to buy and install a third-party MXM GPU a year or more after buying a laptop?