{"id":2214,"date":"2016-10-21T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:13:37","slug":"nintendoo-switcheroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/10\/nintendoo-switcheroo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendoo Switcheroo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nintendo Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haroldito\/30368520781\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/6\/5326\/30368520781_07b271c51f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Shitty title aside on a first impression, I really like it! Then I think of the business side and I can\u2019t help but think that it\u2019s not going to work.<\/p>\n<p>Media and news will never show you that but it\u2019s easy to understand why third-party developers don\u2019t do much on Nintendo\u2019s consoles. The best-selling games on those machines are Nintendo\u2019s. Overwhelmingly. Don\u2019t believe me? Let\u2019s take a look at games that sold at least 1M units, Nintendo has:<\/p>\n<p>SNES: top 3    <br \/>N64: top 13     <br \/>NDS: top 14     <br \/>Wii: top 17     <br \/>3DS: top 10     <br \/>Wii U: top 14     <\/p>\n<p>Those tops represent hundreds of millions of games (Wii Sports, 80M. 80M units). ALL NINTENDO.<\/p>\n<p>So good luck for anyone else to invest millions of dollars in a system where you are pretty much guaranteed to not sell enough to break even. Considering the past ten Nintendo years, very tough sale.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck going back to retail with game cards, delays and what about DLC so pervasive now? They\u2019d better not region-lock nothing because hello 2TB microSD card game cards.<\/p>\n<p>The concept and the hardware are cool, way more attractive that this WiiU thing they did in the past. The same challenges remain though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shitty title aside on a first impression, I really like it! Then I think of the business side and I can\u2019t help but think that it\u2019s not going to work. Media and news will never show you that but it\u2019s easy to understand why third-party developers don\u2019t do much on Nintendo\u2019s consoles. The best-selling games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}