Nintendo’s Recent Success A Bad Thing? April 27
Is Nintendo’s rebirth at the top of the video game industry bad for gaming?¬† One industry analyst says, “Yes”.
¬†”Nintendo has not only increased the size of the market, but it has also re-segmented it in its own favor, in our view,‚Äù Mitchell wrote. ‚ÄúNintendo is dominating software sales on its popular hardware platforms, leaving the publishers with a smaller slice of an only somewhat incrementally larger pie.”
He continued, ‚ÄúMoreover, we feel that the likely shorter product cycles of Nintendo’s platforms puts the publishers in a permanent catch-up mode. We think the upcoming releases of Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption will highlight this phenomena [sic] this holiday season.‚Äù
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