Last week Nintendo gave us a ton of information about their upcoming console, the Switch, which means I can finally give my informed opinion on it. For some background first, once all the Nintendo news broke, investors and some consumers seemed to be pretty disappointed. Problems they have with the console include: The console itself […]
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Last week, Nintendo announced that it was selling its majority stake in the Seattle Mariners. This had me wondering, why now? When Nintendo bought the Mariners, publicly it was presented as an emotional decision, given Nintendo’s US roots are in the Seattle area- Nintendo was simply doing a good deed to help its city keep its team. […]
Last week in an interview with Time Magazine, Nintendo President, Tatsumi Kimishshima mentioned that even after Nintendo’s next console (the NX) launches, Nintendo still plans to continue to make software (presumably, games) to support Wii U owners. As a Nintendo fan having lived through previous lean Nintendo years, I was a bit skeptical about this […]
In Nintendo’s most recent earnings report, they mentioned how Amiibo sales have been coming along quite well. Given Amiibo was the 3rd brand to come out with a toy-video game integration product (after Skylanders and Disney Infinity), is basically a copy of Skylanders and is still doing well, it led me to wonder, what if another […]
Recently Nintendo announced that it is exiting the Brazilian market. At first glance one might think this is totally crazy since Brazil has the world’s seventh largest economy. However, some important things to note about the video game industry in Brazil: Import tariffs are HUGE in the country. Best explained by this handy slide from […]
This past week, Nielsen along with Re/code released a study whose conclusion was that PS4 players are formerly Xbox or Wii players based on the following: 31% of PS4 owners don’t have a PS3 but do have an Xbox 360 or Wii 17% of PS4 owners don’t have any previous-gen systems The above data is in […]
This past week, GameStop noted that they are being proactive when it comes to digital video game content consumption. If you take a look at their annual report, you can see their digital segment has been growing at an incredible pace: (note that “Mobile and consumer electronics’” growth has been primarily the result of GameStop […]
There has been a lot of talk over the last several days since Nintendo dropped a bombshell on the industry, that they were slashing projected Wii U sales for 2014 by a whopping 69% from 9 million to 2.8 million. Since then, journalists industry analysts, bloggers etc. have been going at length to hypothesize what’s […]
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