Thing to remember - even at it’s worst, Nintendo was sitting on massive cash reserves at the time of the Wii U, which put it in a different situation than Sega with the Dreamcast.
Yes but they were losing money. A pile of cash doesn’t help you if you lose market share and can’t recover it. Another Wii U generation and they probably would have gone 3rd party.
@@raskolnikov6443 Sure - but it was a LOT of cash. My memory says that they were sitting on 30 billion USD at the peak of their losses in the late 2010s -- or enough money to keep them going for another 15-20 years if they had to. I think they would have gone 3rd party as well if the Switch had flopped as bad as the Wii U -- but I think even a modest success would have kept them in the console game, as long as their handheld sales held up. In other words, saying the "Switch Saved Nintendo" is a tad hyperbole, IMHO. Whereas Sega, when they cancelled the Dreamcast, really were in dire straits. We were "this close" to a world where Sonic is a Microsoft franchise.
Cash reserves mean nothing if you're not growing, or maintaining market share. It made Nintendo solvent and attractive to stock holders as a company, but market share and growth are mutually exclusive, but the cornerstone of the video game industry. Had the Switch failed, they would have become a third party publisher, leveraging their IPs, while also maintaining the lead in the smaller handheld sales, most likely? So, "Switch Saved Nintendo" is accurate as far as maintaining their growth and market share and keeping them in the public eye. The pandemic and people using Animal Crossing to connect during it was also the best thing to happen to Nintendo as well.
@@PLAYER_42069 There are plenty of examples in business where a company received plenty of investment without a product or market share. The doctom bust of the early 2000s is a prime example of that. Though, in general I would agree with you that having stable market share and/or growth potential is way better than not having it. And I'm not saying the situation wasn't serious. But, even if the Switch imploded, Nintendo would still have had tremendous value both in their handhelds and IP, and they would have had a massive warchest to fall back on. (I would LOVE to work for any company that had years of reserves on hand.) The point I'm trying to make is that, yes, things were serious. Yes, Nintendo would have probably switched to 3rd party publishing if things had gotten bad enough (assuming they could -- retooling your internal development processes isn't as simple as waving a magic wand.) But in terms of causing the company to completely disappear? IMHO, only if things were completely and terribly mismanaged beyond the bad decisions that led to the Wii U and whatever caused the Switch to implode in this alternate timeline. $15 billion dollars in the bank on an $8 billion revenue curve buys you a LOT of wiggle room. (Correction here - Nintendo "only" had $15 billion USD in reserve, not $30 billlion as in my previous posts.)
@@ghoti221 You're missing a key piece of the puzzle. Shareholders are not going to stick around if a company is consistently losing money with their current business model. Blackberry also had huge cash reserves, but their plummeting market and mindshare caused shareholders to abandon ship. They then had to run the company on those cash reserves that dried up extremely quickly, and now they're basically dead.
Nintendo switch also saved my life. I got sober in 2019. Not sure i would have survived early sobriety, lockdown, new job without being able to get lost for hours in my switch. Still goes with me everywhere. This house loves the switch.
I have more games for my Switch than any other console I’ve owned. This is the first time, ever where Nintendo has enjoyed this much variety of software at over 5000 different game’s available.
Nintendo did the most sensible thing after the Wii U’s failure and focused solely on the games and the ability to play them wherever and however you want. No gimmicks like gamepads and Stereoscopic 3D.
Yh it's truly admirable what they were able to achieve with the switch whilst being at the brink of becoming redundant. Unfortunately as the switch is now 6 years old we're starting to see the compromises they had to make to achieve the switches success. Such as the charm of Ninteno consoles UI being virtually gone. No themes, no jingles, no music. But all those things aren't necessarily important but it's something I noticed
Switch is just a killer console. The Switch OLED is literally all I play, despite owning PS5, XSX, PC, Steamdeck (I at least play Steamdeck on occasion). Switch 2 is gonna be the motherlode
@Shaka I have a 3080 and I backed up my copy of the game. Once you get all the mods set up sure game looks incredible. But I can't take my PC with me on the go lol. I'm playing the game exclusively on my Switch and it honestly is fine. It's one of those games where everything is so fun the slowdowns here and there don't matter. Not to mention the Power draw from a PC compared to the switch is ridiculous. Not everyone can afford the huge electric bills my man.
I'm calling it- the Switch is gonna be the best selling console of all time! only 30 million more units to eclipse the PS2, which is roughly what they sold last year.
I am happy to have bought it for my son over Christmas last year. We play Streets of Rage 4 , Sonic games, Mario games but at nights I play Mortal Kombat 11.😅😅😅. I happy Switch is getting Mortal Kombat 11.
From a business perspective... I believe that a key factor to its success was that Nintendo was able to separate from the "mainline" console lifecycle (vs. Ps/Xb) opening an opportunity for fast adoption without direct competition (and lowering marketing expenses)
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
@@willjohnboy I have the PS4 and PS5 but to me they’re just there to play mostly Capcom games, usually the Resident Evil series. Nintendo first party and Capcom developed games are all I play nowadays. When it comes to online, I play Monster Hunter and it works fine on Switch. I am looking forward to games like Final Fantasy 16, Stellar Blade, and AEW: Fight Forever(which I will be also buying for Switch).
@@willjohnboyI don't care about power as long as the games look good, but the rest are so true. Why does MK8 cost $50 despite being a port from another system that released years ago?
Honestly I wouldn't want to live in a world without Nintendo. They're a trailblazer in innovative (albeit sometimes gimmicky) gaming experience and their first party games are of the highest quality and almost no bugs at release dates, which a lot of AAA game development companies struggle.
Switch started the comeback of all comebacks. It's such an amazing little console. I've played it more than any other console since it launched. 125M units sold in a bit over 6 years is massive.
Won't reach what the DS/Wii did with over 255 million systems sold between 2004 and 2010. When GameCube failed, and Nintendo had to come back, Wii and DS did that, with Nintenso selling nearly 2 billion games across 255+ million systems in 6 years.
My childhood didn't get the opportunity to have previous Nintendo consoles. Even when Wii and Wii U came out I didn't buy in. But when they released the switch, man o man, that portability, screen size, OLED, and 1st party exclusives, I had to get one.
Nintendo never needed "saving" as they were always dominant in the handheld market. Even when the NES and the SNES dominated the home console market back in the day, the Gameboy and Gameboy color was always the biggest threat at that time.
I have a Switch, PC, and PS5. In the month of April, it was 50% switch (advance wars, Pokemon, and Sonic frontiers) 45% PC (Lineage, Roblox, Genshin), and 5% PS5 (downloading software for playstation plus). Without 3rd party support, playstation cannot survive on its own.
Playstation has some exclusive contracts with some 3rd party developers and that's keeping it relevant. What's important to note is that Playstation gave up on portable video game players.
I still have my WiiU to this date. It got so many great titles, heck it started my most played franchise (Splatoon). I will die on the hill of „this is probably the most underrated console ever even if that makes my Dreamcast cry“
Note that when the Switch was announced, comments were very skeptical. Many people called it gimmicky because the trailer focused on playing with the Switch kickstand and on games like 1, 2, Switch. It was also not clear whether it would be the best of two worlds (stationary and mobile) or a foul compromise.
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
A Switch Pro would be a another Homerun for Nintendo. A little updated hardware would give the Switch another 6-8yrs of life. It would allow devs with Xbox games to easily port over titles to Nintendo
I know I'm on the minority here, but I really don't want XBox games on my Switch. There's a reason I didn't buy a PS5 or a whatever Microsoft is calling thier console this year
@@nomore3816 i mean every other company is doing that tho… xbox and playstation both dropped pro versions of their older consoles to rack up more sales
It would be a homerun for us gamers… not necessarily for Nintendo. Every time they’ve had a massive success (NES, Gameboy, Wii, DS) and followed it up a more powerful version (SNES, GBA, Wii U, 3ds) the sales took a huge hit. Im not entirely sure why, but its a pretty consistent thing with Nintendo. Which partly explains their creative “take chances” approach to hardware.
Born in 75 grew up with Nintendo from the start and man never in my life would I ever expect to see a SONIC game on a Nintendo System lol. Back in the day that was unheard of SEGA and Nintendo were both strong competition.
It saved Nintendo! Back in the Wii U era. They lost a lot in term of stock price. Everyone had the sentiment that Nintendo should stop making hardware start focusing on publishing games like SEGA lol
If Nintendo did not create Nintendo Wii U, but stayed with Nintendo 2DS, and 3DS instead, this financial trouble did not happen in the first place. Do something Bill and Ted preventing this 1983 Video Game Crash.
Nintendo would never be out the console business. Playstation and the xbox brand would fall out of favor before that happens, no matter how powerful those consoles are
I think there is one company that is heading into the same direction Sega faced after the failures of Saturn and Dreamcast and go 3rd party but it’s not Nintendo, it’s Microsoft
@@worawatsr9803 Microsoft has endless money. They make more money off Office and Azure servers than most companies can even wrap their heads around. That's not even considering Windows - which is still the dominant OS on the whole planet. They can afford to buy anything they want outside of Amazon or Apple (who also have endless money). Nintendo and Sony aren't for sale, but if they were, MS could afford them - but anti-monoply laws in the US would almost certainly block such a move (even though those are both Japanese companies). There's a reason why MS could pay a billion dollars for Minecraft.
The switch is the only console I own anymore. I have a PC, and yea I could buy certain games on there, but for less performance oriented games id much rather lay in bed and play them on the switch than play them on my pc. I rarely ever use my switch docked unless i just want to see how certain games look at 1080p. I could buy a steam deck sure, but I already have an oled switch so i dont really need one
Bro, you have all these consoles, the actual hardware, and that's just amazing 🤤 great collection there. Hats off to you. Better yet, *Cappy* off to you 👏🏻
Let’s not forget that the 3DS had a horrific launch right as the Wii U was announced as well so they started hemorrhaging money like crazy. Wii software sales were flatlining.
@@lambiepie6436 If not meeting sale projections still concerns you, then Microsoft’s Xbox should be deemed a as failure too. Since Microsoft and Nvida had expected higher sales from the Original Xbox, only they didn’t even cross half of their projected sales either, leading to a strained relationship and Microsoft losing billions in the long run.
Nintendo definitely could survive another “failure”, but I don’t know how many. You have to remember- Nintendo doesn’t take a loss on each console sold. The reason their revenue fell is because they failed to sell the Wii U, and that’s how they sell games and that’s how they make money. That’s why they didn’t loose money back when the N64 and GameCube didn’t sell as well as the competition at the time. Because they sold enough to sell their games. Nintendo also made the smart decision to combine their mobile and home console development teams cutting cost and focusing their efforts on one console that served both markets. And they did VERY well at selling the Switch. It’s like the marketing team was completely different (but I don’t know if they were or not).
Even Switch quantity can't match Wii + DS quantity but Switch profit already exceeding Wii + DS profit. Latest FY alone Nintendo make $3.7 billion operating profit. For reference, Playstation only make $1.8 billion operating profit
All that horsepower with the new hardware from Microsoft and Sony and outside of an occasional good (not great) exclusive all we get are duds, I'd say Nintendo is doing just fine.
They did not need saving. Even when the Wii U was failing, Nintendo still had the 3DS. The Wii U was a hiccup for them but they were really not in trouble.
As I mentioned in the video, even though the 3DS was profitable for them, as a whole, the company was still losing 100s of millions of dollars each year.
@@Cowntsikin You don’t understand business. When people say they were in trouble, no one is referring to literal bankruptcy. They are referring to a drastic change, like pulling out of the hardware market…. And Nintendo WAS in a lot of trouble in that regard.
@@Cowntsikin What? The entire point is that the success of the Switch saved them. As in, if the Switch had flopped as badly as the Wii U, Nintendo would be in a very different situation right now.
I understand this is about home consoles, but the DS massively outsold the Wii. The DS (154 million) and 3DS (75 million) sales combined make it the most successful gaming hardware of all time, and it's not even close.
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
The answer is marketing. WiiU is a good console. It had a great potential. But because of bad marketing players were not interested in it and thats why there was no need to open that potential of the console. I am glad Nintendo wade on that base their next console which was named Switch.
Every time someone talks about how the Switch "Saved Nintendo" I have to point out again that Nintendo is essentially a gaming monolith. The company isn't, wasn't, and probably will NEVER, be in a situation where a console release is make or break for them
They were losing $450 million a year by the middle of Wii U’s cycle. I also point out immediately in the video I’m specifically talking about in the console market. They definitely would have never totally died.
@@DaveControlLive they had something like 7 billion usd (equivalent) in cash reserves before the Wii U launch. They could have survived quite a few years of losing money even before all the pay cuts they did.
@@JBaughb They had years of losing money, if their next system was also a major flop, do you not think they would have changed strategies? That’s part of why they put Mario and Pokemon on phones - it was then them shifting strategies to adjust for Wii U doing so poorly. Their operating costs are billions of dollars each year. So, yeah, having 7 billion in reserve is great, but their operating costs are also massive. Having cash in the bank doesn’t mean the company is going to keep doing a potentially losing strategy. Especially if they went from years of losing money on the Wii U to a new console cycle of years of losing money.
@@DaveControlLive they probably would have changed strategies, sure. But thats not uncommon (like fast-tracking the switch when the Wii U performed poorly) and exiting the console market seems supremely unlikely. The Wii U was a single flop that followed one of the best selling consoles of all time, being sold alongside a mobile console that was absolutely dominating the marketplace.
Right, but now the Switch is seemingly slowly falling in sales and Nintendo still says they believe the Switch will keep selling at a faster pace instead. It looks to me like the Wii late sales figures all over again.
Switch happened because of Wii U It seemed obvious at the time that the Wii U tablet as a stand alone device would be perfect. Switch still doesn't have great 3rd party support. All the best stuff on the Switch is from Nintendo themselves. And the lack of power of the Switch is REALLY showing now. Great that Nintendo made use of all the Wii U games for the Switch, but I'm interested to see what the do with the next console they bring out. More powerful ? it has to be. More versions of the same games again? hope not certainly don't count Nintendo out. Even when they do poorly, it takes them somewhere
Not true. I bought it for my son last Christmas. There are tons of AAA 3rd party titles and I bought some including the Sonic Mania and Frontairs, EA Sports games from FIFA and Need for Speed, Mortal Kombat 11 , Streets of Rage 4( my favourite beat em up) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge.
The Switch is powerful enough for its exclusive games and should be able to run games from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era as it’s capabilities are slightly above those systems but the Tegra X1 was still pretty cutting edge at the time of the Switch’s launch despite being over 2 years old and games like Bayonetta 3 shows that the Switch hardware still has some life left in it.
I would argue that the switch didn't save Nintendo. The success of the DS, and 3DS did. The lesson Nintendo learned from the wii was that they can compete on features even if they didn't compete on specs. This was pretty much a mistake, however led them to realise their USP was more in their Intellectual Property and the growing gap in the portable "real games" segment that they were the 2ds/3ds was the player left in. The switch desegmented Nintendo's mobile and TV consoles and focused them onto selling their own IP - which set them up as a companion console to the duopoly of Sony and Microsoft (or for PC gamers) rather than a direct competitors.
What people fail to remember is Nintendo grew from 8-12 billion in cash from 2012-2017 despite Wii U being Nintendo’s worst selling console since Virtual Boy. Nintendo wasn’t remotely in trouble.
The Nintendo Entertainment System/Nintendo Family Computer sold approximately 62 million units in its lifetime. the Nintendo Wii sold approximately 102 million units in its lifetime. the Nintendo NX has sold approximately 130 million units in its lifetime so far, shattering any previous sales records from Nintendo.
Not true. Nintendo has Mario, that alone will always save it. Even if Switch was a falure they could have done a regular console and would be fine (maybe just as good, giving how people nowdays love graphics). Nintendo Switch was always under Nintendo's vision. It wasn't a "save", just the result of their continious efforts.
It's difficult to sum up the decline of Nintendo in the 2010s in a few minutes, but the lacklustre sales of the 3DS were also part of it as mobile gaming was consuming the sales of handhelds. Hence why Sony stopped with handheld gaming as well. So it was also an unfortunate event of circumstances. What Nintendo did afterwards was going from a business strategy (a strategy where you focus one one business line, in this case gaming) to a corporate strategy with different business lines. That's why you have Pokemon Go and Super Mario Run on Iphone, that's why you have Amiibos to unlock goodies in NIntendo games, that's why there's a Super Nintendo Land in Japan and US. The Switch enables some of these business lines, but Nintendo would have survived if the Switch would fail. But then as a third party developer of course.
that's why Nintendo merged their two divisions. There was no "console failure" as mainstream media tries to say, it was the HD development cost/time that caused delays in Wii U games leading to momentum losses, because every big title spiked its sales- MK8 saw a massive increase (and the turn from losing money to profitability), Splatoon saw another spike. Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD also saw spikes, but the delays of up to 6 months or more killed the little momentum it had, thus it's "only" sold 14 million systems, which is higher than any other console only maker as Sony and Microsoft have deep pockets from other divisions to buy sales.
Interesting how the switch has started to reach a similar problem to the wii where it simply is not up to date in hardware with any competitors holding it back from so many titles
i think being half a portable console and having much better first party support at this stage in its lifecycle puts it way ahead of the wii in terms of maintaining consumer interest, but the similarities are pretty striking
Having the best graphics and 3rd party support is highly overrated. Nintendo's best selling games have always been their in-house/first party exclusives going back to the NES. You don't need other company's games when your own games outsell everyone else. They've also repeatedly outsold systems with better hardware. Switch >>> PS4 XB1 Wii >>> PS3 360 3DS >>>Vita DS >>> PSP Gameboy >>> Sega Game Gear Atari Lynx NES >>> Sega Master System TG16 funny enough, their worst performing systems were actually on par with the competition in graphics with the N64 and Gamecube and it's because of what Nintendo is doing now. They had better games.
Not quite the same. Third party games are still coming to the console. Let alone Nintendo is still putting out heavy first party hitters on their console unlike the Wii in this point in time.
Did yall know switch hardware is intentionally underclocked by nintendo? Meaning that you are paying for the full price for hardware/performance that the switch doesn't fully utilize and its significant to with the switch running at the full speed of the hardware nintendo used games like BOTW and TOTK have zero frame drops. And Mario Kart 8 Deluxe wouldn't have to be capped at 30fps with more than more than 2 players. (This is not a switch hate comment just a fact i learned a little bit ago)
Nintendo Switch saved Nintendo yeah whatever Nintendo needs a powerful console I stopped playing on Nintendo years ago I played this year on Nintendo cause of Tears of the kingdom it’s the games that’s saving Nintendo not the hardware that’s failing Sony learned their lesson that the PSX was a failure and never did that mistake ever again made every PlayStation console better then one before that’s what Nintendo problem they can’t make their next console better or more powerful then the last one
bro nintendo console doesnt need to be that powerful. Xbox and ps have 95 percent same games and onlylike 5 percent exclusive. Nintendo is the other way around 95 percent of there games are exclusive. Its a different market they dont have to compete with sony or xbox
I still maintain that had Nintendo actually released some games for the Wii U they would have sold more. I loved my Wii U and waited patiently for some first party games like Animal Crossing. It's fine though, because the Wii U had to fail for the Switch to become a thing, and the switch is the perfect console.
Also remember, that aside from a couple of years under the Wii U, Nintendo always makes a profit from the gaming consoles. (Sony and Microsoft actually make losses from their gaming consoles unlike nintendo, but they make profits from the profits). Nintendo also sits on massive cash reserves (and even more now). Nintendo before the switch, could lose 250 million dollars a year, and it would still take nintendo until 2052 to go bankrupt. Nintendo are incredible!!
That's why I love Nintendo and Japan. The company lose money, the CEO and Director takes a paycut. Actually taking responsibility. When an American company like, Disney, loses 11 BILLION, not millions, Bob Iger gets himself a 25 million dollar bonus, and 1 million dollar raise every year.
Smash Ultimate is not the an improved version of Smash 4, its a completely different thing with a different engine. I've played both for like 600 hours each.
Yeah... You realize Nintendo would have to lose money for about 86 years in a row before they went bankrupt, and that was during their lowest profits with the WiiU? Clickbait much?
Their lowest profits during the Wii U era was negative 500 million dollars. I also didn’t say they’d go bankrupt, just that they might have chosen to go the Sega route and become 3rd party developer/publishers had the Switch bombed as badly as the Wii U.
Nintendo had about four or five more Wii Us in them until they'd have needed something to save them. They'll still be making toys like the Switch when PlayStation and XBox are monthly service apps on your PC desktop.
I never got a Wii U back in the days, I got a Dreamcast instead... And then PS4. I'm interested in the 4th Super Smash Bros. And I wish I got a Nintendo 3DS. I decided to get my own Nintendo Switch in 2019 mainly for Resident Evil games for it, and Final Fantasy VII through FFX. As for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I was trying decide to choose between that and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, in the end, I went with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
![Blox Fruits Dragon Rework Update [Full Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EqDAp8udhm0/mqdefault.jpg)
Thing to remember - even at it’s worst, Nintendo was sitting on massive cash reserves at the time of the Wii U, which put it in a different situation than Sega with the Dreamcast.
Yes but they were losing money. A pile of cash doesn’t help you if you lose market share and can’t recover it. Another Wii U generation and they probably would have gone 3rd party.
@@raskolnikov6443 Sure - but it was a LOT of cash. My memory says that they were sitting on 30 billion USD at the peak of their losses in the late 2010s -- or enough money to keep them going for another 15-20 years if they had to.
I think they would have gone 3rd party as well if the Switch had flopped as bad as the Wii U -- but I think even a modest success would have kept them in the console game, as long as their handheld sales held up. In other words, saying the "Switch Saved Nintendo" is a tad hyperbole, IMHO.
Whereas Sega, when they cancelled the Dreamcast, really were in dire straits. We were "this close" to a world where Sonic is a Microsoft franchise.
Cash reserves mean nothing if you're not growing, or maintaining market share. It made Nintendo solvent and attractive to stock holders as a company, but market share and growth are mutually exclusive, but the cornerstone of the video game industry. Had the Switch failed, they would have become a third party publisher, leveraging their IPs, while also maintaining the lead in the smaller handheld sales, most likely? So, "Switch Saved Nintendo" is accurate as far as maintaining their growth and market share and keeping them in the public eye. The pandemic and people using Animal Crossing to connect during it was also the best thing to happen to Nintendo as well.
@@PLAYER_42069 There are plenty of examples in business where a company received plenty of investment without a product or market share. The doctom bust of the early 2000s is a prime example of that. Though, in general I would agree with you that having stable market share and/or growth potential is way better than not having it. And I'm not saying the situation wasn't serious. But, even if the Switch imploded, Nintendo would still have had tremendous value both in their handhelds and IP, and they would have had a massive warchest to fall back on. (I would LOVE to work for any company that had years of reserves on hand.)
The point I'm trying to make is that, yes, things were serious. Yes, Nintendo would have probably switched to 3rd party publishing if things had gotten bad enough (assuming they could -- retooling your internal development processes isn't as simple as waving a magic wand.) But in terms of causing the company to completely disappear? IMHO, only if things were completely and terribly mismanaged beyond the bad decisions that led to the Wii U and whatever caused the Switch to implode in this alternate timeline. $15 billion dollars in the bank on an $8 billion revenue curve buys you a LOT of wiggle room. (Correction here - Nintendo "only" had $15 billion USD in reserve, not $30 billlion as in my previous posts.)
@@ghoti221 You're missing a key piece of the puzzle. Shareholders are not going to stick around if a company is consistently losing money with their current business model. Blackberry also had huge cash reserves, but their plummeting market and mindshare caused shareholders to abandon ship. They then had to run the company on those cash reserves that dried up extremely quickly, and now they're basically dead.
Nintendo switch also saved my life. I got sober in 2019. Not sure i would have survived early sobriety, lockdown, new job without being able to get lost for hours in my switch. Still goes with me everywhere. This house loves the switch.
congrats on getting sober
Very similar situation as mine!! ❤🎉 definitely something to be proud of!!!!
the really sad part is, Iwata-San never lived to see his company make a comeback.
Yeah. :( I really wish he'd seen it happen.
He would be very proud!
I have more games for my Switch than any other console I’ve owned. This is the first time, ever where Nintendo has enjoyed this much variety of software at over 5000 different game’s available.
same and i would buy so many ps games and yet i managed to rack up so many switch games 😭
Nintendo did the most sensible thing after the Wii U’s failure and focused solely on the games and the ability to play them wherever and however you want. No gimmicks like gamepads and Stereoscopic 3D.
Yh it's truly admirable what they were able to achieve with the switch whilst being at the brink of becoming redundant. Unfortunately as the switch is now 6 years old we're starting to see the compromises they had to make to achieve the switches success. Such as the charm of Ninteno consoles UI being virtually gone. No themes, no jingles, no music. But all those things aren't necessarily important but it's something I noticed
Sony did it with the psp you could play it on the tv if you bought the dock it’s not actually new but yeah the switch is good
I like 3D. Find myself missing it constantly, especially when trying to shoot down balloons in Animal Crossing.
Except the fact that the console is both a handheld and a home console is a gimmick at the end of the day. Just one that works and makes sense.
@@Henshingod You could call literally anything a “gimmick” at that point.
The 3DS was pretty much Nintendo's life support during the Wii U era.
and it's the best life support ever.
Indeed!
Same with GBA being Nintendo's life support during the GameCube era.
You are forgetting all the money they made during the WII and DS era
@@M64bros 🐑🐑🐑🐑
@@Wario1382 Still harassing people as always Zach
Switch is just a killer console. The Switch OLED is literally all I play, despite owning PS5, XSX, PC, Steamdeck (I at least play Steamdeck on occasion). Switch 2 is gonna be the motherlode
Can’t afford a pc to play yuzu so you don’t have to play games at 900p 15fps?
@@Shaka_Zulu bro literally said he has a PC. Learn how to read.
@Shaka I have a 3080 and I backed up my copy of the game. Once you get all the mods set up sure game looks incredible. But I can't take my PC with me on the go lol. I'm playing the game exclusively on my Switch and it honestly is fine. It's one of those games where everything is so fun the slowdowns here and there don't matter. Not to mention the Power draw from a PC compared to the switch is ridiculous. Not everyone can afford the huge electric bills my man.
@@Shaka_Zulu always prefer to play on original hardware. Also most people who do it pirate the games and I don’t steal.
I prefer the steam deck, but then again I DON’T have the switch oled and I would have to share with my younger brother
I'm calling it- the Switch is gonna be the best selling console of all time! only 30 million more units to eclipse the PS2, which is roughly what they sold last year.
I am happy to have bought it for my son over Christmas last year. We play Streets of Rage 4 , Sonic games, Mario games but at nights I play Mortal Kombat 11.😅😅😅. I happy Switch is getting Mortal Kombat 11.
I just wish Satoru Iwata was around during the switch he would have been so proud rest in peace my fellow brother gamer.
He will RIP. His legacy is way better than he ever knew.
From a business perspective... I believe that a key factor to its success was that Nintendo was able to separate from the "mainline" console lifecycle (vs. Ps/Xb) opening an opportunity for fast adoption without direct competition (and lowering marketing expenses)
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
Switch became my dream system come to life. Now I don’t need to buy another device and Nintendo can put all their focus and games on a single device.
The lack of power, 3rd party support, poor online and over priced games even years after the games release is a dream system to you?.
Definitely and indeed
@@willjohnboy I have the PS4 and PS5 but to me they’re just there to play mostly Capcom games, usually the Resident Evil series. Nintendo first party and Capcom developed games are all I play nowadays. When it comes to online, I play Monster Hunter and it works fine on Switch. I am looking forward to games like Final Fantasy 16, Stellar Blade, and AEW: Fight Forever(which I will be also buying for Switch).
@@diendong just buy a pc
@@willjohnboyI don't care about power as long as the games look good, but the rest are so true. Why does MK8 cost $50 despite being a port from another system that released years ago?
Honestly I wouldn't want to live in a world without Nintendo. They're a trailblazer in innovative (albeit sometimes gimmicky) gaming experience and their first party games are of the highest quality and almost no bugs at release dates, which a lot of AAA game development companies struggle.
Switch started the comeback of all comebacks. It's such an amazing little console. I've played it more than any other console since it launched. 125M units sold in a bit over 6 years is massive.
Won't reach what the DS/Wii did with over 255 million systems sold between 2004 and 2010. When GameCube failed, and Nintendo had to come back, Wii and DS did that, with Nintenso selling nearly 2 billion games across 255+ million systems in 6 years.
My childhood didn't get the opportunity to have previous Nintendo consoles. Even when Wii and Wii U came out I didn't buy in. But when they released the switch, man o man, that portability, screen size, OLED, and 1st party exclusives, I had to get one.
Nintendo never needed "saving" as they were always dominant in the handheld market. Even when the NES and the SNES dominated the home console market back in the day, the Gameboy and Gameboy color was always the biggest threat at that time.
I have a Switch, PC, and PS5. In the month of April, it was 50% switch (advance wars, Pokemon, and Sonic frontiers) 45% PC (Lineage, Roblox, Genshin), and 5% PS5 (downloading software for playstation plus). Without 3rd party support, playstation cannot survive on its own.
I use my PC for work not to play video games. I have a Switch too.
Playstation has some exclusive contracts with some 3rd party developers and that's keeping it relevant. What's important to note is that Playstation gave up on portable video game players.
I still have my WiiU to this date. It got so many great titles, heck it started my most played franchise (Splatoon). I will die on the hill of „this is probably the most underrated console ever even if that makes my Dreamcast cry“
Oh definitely. I played a ton on my Wii U and it’s definitely a gem, just executed so poorly on the marketing side
Note that when the Switch was announced, comments were very skeptical. Many people called it gimmicky because the trailer focused on playing with the Switch kickstand and on games like 1, 2, Switch. It was also not clear whether it would be the best of two worlds (stationary and mobile) or a foul compromise.
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
A Switch Pro would be a another Homerun for Nintendo. A little updated hardware would give the Switch another 6-8yrs of life. It would allow devs with Xbox games to easily port over titles to Nintendo
then just make a switch 2
I know I'm on the minority here, but I really don't want XBox games on my Switch. There's a reason I didn't buy a PS5 or a whatever Microsoft is calling thier console this year
@@nomore3816 i mean every other company is doing that tho… xbox and playstation both dropped pro versions of their older consoles to rack up more sales
It would be a homerun for us gamers… not necessarily for Nintendo. Every time they’ve had a massive success (NES, Gameboy, Wii, DS) and followed it up a more powerful version (SNES, GBA, Wii U, 3ds) the sales took a huge hit. Im not entirely sure why, but its a pretty consistent thing with Nintendo. Which partly explains their creative “take chances” approach to hardware.
@@DamnRizzzthey did that around 4ish years into the life span, but the switch is 6 years old, now too late
Born in 75 grew up with Nintendo from the start and man never in my life would I ever expect to see a SONIC game on a Nintendo System lol. Back in the day that was unheard of SEGA and Nintendo were both strong competition.
I love the Switch so much. I don’t want it to fade away. Give us Super Switch, Nintendo! (Switch 2)
Wow super switch, how about extra switch.
Like a S-Witch?
So the Switch is effectively like sharing an android phone screen and using a controller.........
Every time Nintendo does something, everyone says it "saved" the company.
Not the Wii u
It saved Nintendo! Back in the Wii U era. They lost a lot in term of stock price. Everyone had the sentiment that Nintendo should stop making hardware start focusing on publishing games like SEGA lol
I don't believe that's true.
I think you're the only one saying that.
The console sales chart does say that.
Exclusive games are the best.
They objectively are
@@BronzeLincolns81 🤓🤓🤓🐑🐑🐑
@@Wario1382 imagine harassing and attacking people for saying an opinion
This is a very well made video ! Watching it felt so smooth till the end. Kudos to the Host and Editor 👍👍👍
Nintendo needs to save Nintendo Switch, again.
Why?
If Nintendo did not create Nintendo Wii U, but stayed with Nintendo 2DS, and 3DS instead, this financial trouble did not happen in the first place. Do something Bill and Ted preventing this 1983 Video Game Crash.
Nintendo would never be out the console business. Playstation and the xbox brand would fall out of favor before that happens, no matter how powerful those consoles are
I think there is one company that is heading into the same direction Sega faced after the failures of Saturn and Dreamcast and go 3rd party but it’s not Nintendo, it’s Microsoft
Get your facts straight! And say Xbox instead of Microsoft! Microsoft could possibly afford to buy Nintendo or Sony at their position right now
@@julianojosoa2145 Microsoft can’t even buy one studio. What makes you think they can buy Nintendo, let alone a global conglomerate like Sony.
@@worawatsr9803 He thinks that because microsoft is the fourth biggest company in the world.
@@worawatsr9803 with $2.5 Trillion in the bank Microsoft and Xbox will be here long after Nintendo and Sony cease to exist!
@@worawatsr9803 Microsoft has endless money. They make more money off Office and Azure servers than most companies can even wrap their heads around. That's not even considering Windows - which is still the dominant OS on the whole planet. They can afford to buy anything they want outside of Amazon or Apple (who also have endless money). Nintendo and Sony aren't for sale, but if they were, MS could afford them - but anti-monoply laws in the US would almost certainly block such a move (even though those are both Japanese companies). There's a reason why MS could pay a billion dollars for Minecraft.
The Nintendo Switch is a brilliant console full of instant classics. Just let Nintendo do its thing.
I love watching Dave Klein's videos! Been a huge fan since his DaveControl / Supershow days :)
Nintendo Switch might be the reason why we have steam deck today
Steam deck battery doesn't last long, though.
It’s funny that people forget how close Nintendo was to going 3rd party if the Switch had fail. They were this close to being another Sega.
The switch is the only console I own anymore. I have a PC, and yea I could buy certain games on there, but for less performance oriented games id much rather lay in bed and play them on the switch than play them on my pc. I rarely ever use my switch docked unless i just want to see how certain games look at 1080p. I could buy a steam deck sure, but I already have an oled switch so i dont really need one
I have a wii U and i gotta say. Its great
Oh yeah, I love my Wii U!
Bro, you have all these consoles, the actual hardware, and that's just amazing 🤤 great collection there. Hats off to you. Better yet, *Cappy* off to you 👏🏻
Thanks! Been a lifelong gamer, so they all added up overtime, haha.
Appreciate the Odyssey reference!
@@DaveControlLive Yeah, that's pretty admirable and I couldn't help but add the Odyssey reference there xD I'm having a blast playing it.
BOTW and the ability to play it handheld, was some of many reasons the Switch is so successful
12:11 - Smash Ultimate was a new entry in the franchise, not a port of the Wii U version.
Yet they did nothing to stop the joycon drift. I’ve said everywhere: Nintendo should be ashamed as a Japanese company by its standard
Let's not forget that the Nintendo DS came out after the GameCube which was selling like crazy 👀👀 Nintendo was always rich after that
Let’s not forget that the 3DS had a horrific launch right as the Wii U was announced as well so they started hemorrhaging money like crazy. Wii software sales were flatlining.
GameCube was very profitable for Nintendo. It wasn’t as big as Sony’s PS2, but it beat Microsoft in terms of profitability made.
@@crazedlunatic43 explain why they slashed the price to 99 bucks extremely quickly? GameCube couldn’t even sell half of what iwata predicted it would.
@@lambiepie6436 If not meeting sale projections still concerns you, then Microsoft’s Xbox should be deemed a as failure too. Since Microsoft and Nvida had expected higher sales from the Original Xbox, only they didn’t even cross half of their projected sales either, leading to a strained relationship and Microsoft losing billions in the long run.
@@lambiepie6436 Price cuts are normal, as the PS2 got one “extremely quickly” which was now sitting at $199 instead of it’s debuting $299.
Nintendo definitely could survive another “failure”, but I don’t know how many.
You have to remember- Nintendo doesn’t take a loss on each console sold. The reason their revenue fell is because they failed to sell the Wii U, and that’s how they sell games and that’s how they make money. That’s why they didn’t loose money back when the N64 and GameCube didn’t sell as well as the competition at the time.
Because they sold enough to sell their games. Nintendo also made the smart decision to combine their mobile and home console development teams cutting cost and focusing their efforts on one console that served both markets.
And they did VERY well at selling the Switch. It’s like the marketing team was completely different (but I don’t know if they were or not).
Even Switch quantity can't match Wii + DS quantity but Switch profit already exceeding Wii + DS profit. Latest FY alone Nintendo make $3.7 billion operating profit. For reference, Playstation only make $1.8 billion operating profit
Indeed!
All that horsepower with the new hardware from Microsoft and Sony and outside of an occasional good (not great) exclusive all we get are duds, I'd say Nintendo is doing just fine.
5:03 weird point to make when the SNES sounded like the sequel to the NES.
They did not need saving. Even when the Wii U was failing, Nintendo still had the 3DS. The Wii U was a hiccup for them but they were really not in trouble.
As I mentioned in the video, even though the 3DS was profitable for them, as a whole, the company was still losing 100s of millions of dollars each year.
@@DaveControlLive Nintendo is rolling in so much money that they can lose money for the next hundred years and still be ok
@@Cowntsikin You don’t understand business. When people say they were in trouble, no one is referring to literal bankruptcy. They are referring to a drastic change, like pulling out of the hardware market…. And Nintendo WAS in a lot of trouble in that regard.
@@TheAlibabatree And why didn't they? Because they know they still have lots of ideas to get going for. It was just a matter of time.
@@Cowntsikin What? The entire point is that the success of the Switch saved them. As in, if the Switch had flopped as badly as the Wii U, Nintendo would be in a very different situation right now.
I understand this is about home consoles, but the DS massively outsold the Wii. The DS (154 million) and 3DS (75 million) sales combined make it the most successful gaming hardware of all time, and it's not even close.
#NintendoNEXUS I hope the next Nintendo console is resembles the Nintendo 64 with FD add ON "except" it has a High Dynamic Range Disk player to play games and movies. Also a special slot for a cartidge area for Static Read Write Cartridge for optional special games. An SD Card reader. A System Expansion Port. 4 controller ports. System specs greater then Xbox X. Someone make a mok up of the old NINTENDO64 WITH Floppy Disc add on and make it look amazing! Controllers should have those center touch pads, maybe even with a touch screen instead since their cheap to make these days. They should call it the Nintendo NEXUS. Love the name of it... sounds nice and reminds me of social inclusion. Let Nintendo Switch remain as superior handheld selling side by side. The next Nintendo counsole should make us all feel like gaming went into the future and does things never done before. #FUTUREGAMING
Great work Dave! 👍More of this type of content please.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed. 😁
The answer is marketing. WiiU is a good console. It had a great potential. But because of bad marketing players were not interested in it and thats why there was no need to open that potential of the console.
I am glad Nintendo wade on that base their next console which was named Switch.
Every time someone talks about how the Switch "Saved Nintendo" I have to point out again that Nintendo is essentially a gaming monolith. The company isn't, wasn't, and probably will NEVER, be in a situation where a console release is make or break for them
They were losing $450 million a year by the middle of Wii U’s cycle.
I also point out immediately in the video I’m specifically talking about in the console market. They definitely would have never totally died.
@@DaveControlLive they had something like 7 billion usd (equivalent) in cash reserves before the Wii U launch. They could have survived quite a few years of losing money even before all the pay cuts they did.
@@JBaughb They had years of losing money, if their next system was also a major flop, do you not think they would have changed strategies? That’s part of why they put Mario and Pokemon on phones - it was then them shifting strategies to adjust for Wii U doing so poorly.
Their operating costs are billions of dollars each year. So, yeah, having 7 billion in reserve is great, but their operating costs are also massive.
Having cash in the bank doesn’t mean the company is going to keep doing a potentially losing strategy. Especially if they went from years of losing money on the Wii U to a new console cycle of years of losing money.
@@DaveControlLive they probably would have changed strategies, sure. But thats not uncommon (like fast-tracking the switch when the Wii U performed poorly) and exiting the console market seems supremely unlikely. The Wii U was a single flop that followed one of the best selling consoles of all time, being sold alongside a mobile console that was absolutely dominating the marketplace.
Why would you play it on the bog? Who wants poo particles on their gear? Think twice before buying second hand peeps...
Right, but now the Switch is seemingly slowly falling in sales and Nintendo still says they believe the Switch will keep selling at a faster pace instead. It looks to me like the Wii late sales figures all over again.
Switch happened because of Wii U
It seemed obvious at the time that the Wii U tablet as a stand alone device would be perfect.
Switch still doesn't have great 3rd party support. All the best stuff on the Switch is from Nintendo themselves.
And the lack of power of the Switch is REALLY showing now.
Great that Nintendo made use of all the Wii U games for the Switch, but I'm interested to see what the do with the next console they bring out.
More powerful ? it has to be.
More versions of the same games again? hope not
certainly don't count Nintendo out. Even when they do poorly, it takes them somewhere
Not true. I bought it for my son last Christmas. There are tons of AAA 3rd party titles and I bought some including the Sonic Mania and Frontairs, EA Sports games from FIFA and Need for Speed, Mortal Kombat 11 , Streets of Rage 4( my favourite beat em up) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge.
Imagine if (just dreaming) they release a super switch (2) so to speak, and allow you to transfer all your 3er party games to the new console 🤯
The Switch is powerful enough for its exclusive games and should be able to run games from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era as it’s capabilities are slightly above those systems but the Tegra X1 was still pretty cutting edge at the time of the Switch’s launch despite being over 2 years old and games like Bayonetta 3 shows that the Switch hardware still has some life left in it.
I would argue that the switch didn't save Nintendo. The success of the DS, and 3DS did.
The lesson Nintendo learned from the wii was that they can compete on features even if they didn't compete on specs. This was pretty much a mistake, however led them to realise their USP was more in their Intellectual Property and the growing gap in the portable "real games" segment that they were the 2ds/3ds was the player left in.
The switch desegmented Nintendo's mobile and TV consoles and focused them onto selling their own IP - which set them up as a companion console to the duopoly of Sony and Microsoft (or for PC gamers) rather than a direct competitors.
I don't believe the Switch saved Nintendo, it just got them back to where they used to be.
Not that I disagree about the name sounding like a sequel, but SUPER NES also does.
Couldn't find a video that also covered this topic but thanks to that I was able to find this. Good one!
I don't think it "saved" Nintendo as they didn't needed any saving in the first place
Great video! Very well produced, entertaining and educational.
Great job Dave and Devante! I really enjoyed this episode. I love my Switch. I'm so glad Nintendo's back to doing well! :)
Love the dreamcast. Those were the days
Cool video but did you just say Smash Ultimate was smash 4 but more??? Did you play either games??
What people fail to remember is Nintendo grew from 8-12 billion in cash from 2012-2017 despite Wii U being Nintendo’s worst selling console since Virtual Boy.
Nintendo wasn’t remotely in trouble.
Not to mention the games were all high on quality especially their exclusives
Klein: I LOVE my Nintendo Switch.
Me: 0:05 I LOVE the doges 🥰
Click bait headline. Switch didn't save Nintendo. The company wasn't even close to being on the ropes post Wii U.
Dave Klein is using microphones from when the Wii U was in production... You're a trooper
The Nintendo Entertainment System/Nintendo Family Computer sold approximately 62 million units in its lifetime.
the Nintendo Wii sold approximately 102 million units in its lifetime.
the Nintendo NX has sold approximately 130 million units in its lifetime so far, shattering any previous sales records from Nintendo.
Not true. Nintendo has Mario, that alone will always save it. Even if Switch was a falure they could have done a regular console and would be fine (maybe just as good, giving how people nowdays love graphics).
Nintendo Switch was always under Nintendo's vision. It wasn't a "save", just the result of their continious efforts.
Especially with a major Hollywood movie like the one recently.
It's difficult to sum up the decline of Nintendo in the 2010s in a few minutes, but the lacklustre sales of the 3DS were also part of it as mobile gaming was consuming the sales of handhelds. Hence why Sony stopped with handheld gaming as well. So it was also an unfortunate event of circumstances.
What Nintendo did afterwards was going from a business strategy (a strategy where you focus one one business line, in this case gaming) to a corporate strategy with different business lines. That's why you have Pokemon Go and Super Mario Run on Iphone, that's why you have Amiibos to unlock goodies in NIntendo games, that's why there's a Super Nintendo Land in Japan and US.
The Switch enables some of these business lines, but Nintendo would have survived if the Switch would fail. But then as a third party developer of course.
that's why Nintendo merged their two divisions. There was no "console failure" as mainstream media tries to say, it was the HD development cost/time that caused delays in Wii U games leading to momentum losses, because every big title spiked its sales- MK8 saw a massive increase (and the turn from losing money to profitability), Splatoon saw another spike. Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD also saw spikes, but the delays of up to 6 months or more killed the little momentum it had, thus it's "only" sold 14 million systems, which is higher than any other console only maker as Sony and Microsoft have deep pockets from other divisions to buy sales.
3ds sold 75 million, get your facts right
@@jackson5116 Microsoft expected more sales from their Original Xbox, so not meeting sales projections makes the Xbox a failure, no?
Interesting how the switch has started to reach a similar problem to the wii where it simply is not up to date in hardware with any competitors holding it back from so many titles
i think being half a portable console and having much better first party support at this stage in its lifecycle puts it way ahead of the wii in terms of maintaining consumer interest, but the similarities are pretty striking
Having the best graphics and 3rd party support is highly overrated. Nintendo's best selling games have always been their in-house/first party exclusives going back to the NES. You don't need other company's games when your own games outsell everyone else. They've also repeatedly outsold systems with better hardware.
Switch >>> PS4 XB1
Wii >>> PS3 360
3DS >>>Vita
DS >>> PSP
Gameboy >>> Sega Game Gear Atari Lynx
NES >>> Sega Master System TG16
funny enough, their worst performing systems were actually on par with the competition in graphics with the N64 and Gamecube and it's because of what Nintendo is doing now. They had better games.
Not quite the same. Third party games are still coming to the console. Let alone Nintendo is still putting out heavy first party hitters on their console unlike the Wii in this point in time.
Did yall know switch hardware is intentionally underclocked by nintendo? Meaning that you are paying for the full price for hardware/performance that the switch doesn't fully utilize and its significant to with the switch running at the full speed of the hardware nintendo used games like BOTW and TOTK have zero frame drops. And Mario Kart 8 Deluxe wouldn't have to be capped at 30fps with more than more than 2 players. (This is not a switch hate comment just a fact i learned a little bit ago)
I didn’t know Linus worked at Gamespot.
Nintendo Switch saved Nintendo yeah whatever Nintendo needs a powerful console I stopped playing on Nintendo years ago I played this year on Nintendo cause of Tears of the kingdom it’s the games that’s saving Nintendo not the hardware that’s failing Sony learned their lesson that the PSX was a failure and never did that mistake ever again made every PlayStation console better then one before that’s what Nintendo problem they can’t make their next console better or more powerful then the last one
bro nintendo console doesnt need to be that powerful. Xbox and ps have 95 percent same games and onlylike 5 percent exclusive. Nintendo is the other way around 95 percent of there games are exclusive. Its a different market they dont have to compete with sony or xbox
Reggie please don’t speak kiddo we’re on 2023 not in 1990 kiddo
@@samamir8765 his brain isn’t thinking right he wants Nintendo to make their consoles weak so they can’t play street fighter 6 classic game
@@reggiepathak9684 go get a life child
Very sad Reggie talks like a kid not like an adult he must be broke can’t afford a PS5 so wants Nintendo to keep on costing $300 no brain 🧠
5:37 best game on the Wii U
I still maintain that had Nintendo actually released some games for the Wii U they would have sold more. I loved my Wii U and waited patiently for some first party games like Animal Crossing. It's fine though, because the Wii U had to fail for the Switch to become a thing, and the switch is the perfect console.
Still have my Wii U I got back in 2014. It is immortal thanks to Splatoon alone, in my opinion.
Still got my Wii U connected alongside the Switch. Great console, just very badly marketed.
Lol it will never stop!
Smash Ultimate is like Wii U smash but more?? Which version are you playing???
Also remember, that aside from a couple of years under the Wii U, Nintendo always makes a profit from the gaming consoles. (Sony and Microsoft actually make losses from their gaming consoles unlike nintendo, but they make profits from the profits).
Nintendo also sits on massive cash reserves (and even more now). Nintendo before the switch, could lose 250 million dollars a year, and it would still take nintendo until 2052 to go bankrupt.
Nintendo are incredible!!
This is a great niche they found, they could possibly stick with this concept.
They need to go vr with unique controllers that cannot be replicated or else they will keep whining about piracy and emulators
Wiiu isnt a disaster, Nintendo marketing was a disaster. Wiiu is amazing
The more interesting question is what comes next after the switch for nintendo? Is it gonna be a natural evolution or a fully new console.
I can see them dive into vr but I think they'll ride the hybrid train for one more console before jumping something different
That's why I love Nintendo and Japan. The company lose money, the CEO and Director takes a paycut. Actually taking responsibility. When an American company like, Disney, loses 11 BILLION, not millions, Bob Iger gets himself a 25 million dollar bonus, and 1 million dollar raise every year.
9:38 Never thought I'd hear that, but here I am.
Smash Ultimate is not the an improved version of Smash 4, its a completely different thing with a different engine. I've played both for like 600 hours each.
Who got link? I want him
Yeah... You realize Nintendo would have to lose money for about 86 years in a row before they went bankrupt, and that was during their lowest profits with the WiiU? Clickbait much?
Their lowest profits during the Wii U era was negative 500 million dollars.
I also didn’t say they’d go bankrupt, just that they might have chosen to go the Sega route and become 3rd party developer/publishers had the Switch bombed as badly as the Wii U.
@@DaveControlLive "SAVED (in all caps btw) the company" 100% implies bankruptcy but oooookay dude
Nintendo had about four or five more Wii Us in them until they'd have needed something to save them. They'll still be making toys like the Switch when PlayStation and XBox are monthly service apps on your PC desktop.
I would love a Fusion of the 3ds and the switch for next gen.
Bought died laughing when the T Rex said SEGA lol.
Having looked more closely at the Switch it’s revitalised my love for gaming again and I’m shunning PlayStation and Xbox.
I never got a Wii U back in the days, I got a Dreamcast instead... And then PS4.
I'm interested in the 4th Super Smash Bros. And I wish I got a Nintendo 3DS.
I decided to get my own Nintendo Switch in 2019 mainly for Resident Evil games for it, and Final Fantasy VII through FFX.
As for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I was trying decide to choose between that and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, in the end, I went with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
I lowkey wished the switch had failed, so we could see their games on better, more powerful hardware
Nintendo is the Best!! 😃👍🏻
and now, every company want to copy this console, like how they try to sell handheld pc console but nintendo got games 🔥🔥
The sensor bar is where its at... the wii and Wii u better for pointing at the tv.
Dream cast was way ahead of its time
Nice of young Howard Hamlin to break this down for us
I’ll take it.
Technically, Nintendo does have a handheld console... It's called the Nintendo Switch Lite.
Me: watching this video while pooping 9:35