How Nintendo Competes Differently Than Sony and Microsoft | WSJ The Economics Of

From portable consoles like the Gameboy and Switch to its franchises, including Super Mario Bros and the Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has established itself as a gaming industry giant among competitors and is expanding further into theme parks and movies.

WSJ’s Sarah Needleman and videogames analyst Michael Pachter discuss Nintendo’s business strategy and how they stack up against gaming rivals Microsoft and Sony.

Chapters:
0:00 Nintendo is one of the biggest gaming giants in the world
0:23 How Nintendo turns a large profit on its consoles like the Switch and Gameboy
2:29 Why Nintendo creates most of its own games
4:10 Nintendo’s plans for theme parks and Hollywood films

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[rambolambo]

What separates Nintendo is their ability to make characters appeal to majority of the world

[reahslademhA]

Nice video but it misses one important thing: quality control. As you get older, you learn something about Nintendo that most people can’t articulate: Nintendo is the Name Brand in gaming. They dont just make appealing games. They make mechanically rich games. Their games have few bugs. And their games are good GAMES. This laser focus on quality makes a Nintendo system a very easy purchase. If you’re in the know, then you know you have to have a Nintendo. Mario may be a kid’s game but that’s secondary to it being an excellent GAME. and when people feel it and play it, they’ll always eventually come back. That’s the hook.

[dvaccaro]

As some of the other gamers in the comments are mentioning, it is crucial to understand that hardcore gamers also find Nintendo games appealing because of their incredibly creative gameplay. Other AAA companies try to make their games appealing due to graphics, physics, or a good story, but always on the side of realism. Nintendo goes crazy and doesn't really care about an "adult" storytelling, allowing the gamer to have a direct experience of sheer gameplay.

[robertmusil]

Their games are just super fun to play in a group setting.

[fleekrushyt]

Let me say it once again: Nintendo doesnt want to best hardwere and so on. That would just not make sense with their games. Nintendo wants good games, that appeal to everyone. And they have done that quite well.

[scrtpassword]

Something not mentioned here is that Nintendo games are major standouts because of their gameplay. Sure you can have amazing ray tracing graphics, in depth stories, multidimensional characters, but most games on Xbox and ps5 have pretty standard gameplay.

For example, Mario odyssey is easy to pick up and finish the story. But the real game is finding and getting the moons. Many of which require immense skills. I don’t need to remember crazy amount of button controls, where the story is where I left off. Just simple gameplay that gets challenging.

[MminaMaclang]

We survived a Nintendo video without ever mentioning Pokemon. Interesting.

[DesignEntity]

There are video game companies, and then there’s Nintendo. Usually Nintendo does the most innovative things, everyone watches, and then follows suit.

[sp]

This is better analysis than CNBC's some financial analyst's view of why Nintendo is on the rise. It's the characters and their games that attracts many people, not the graphics or high end consoles. CNBC just had it all wrong about Nintendo.

[ZSleepingDragonZ]

The #1 reason: they started as a gaming company and is dedicated to gaming.

[Luke]

what's amazing about Nintendo is that they can keep making top quality games without the most cutting edge hardware

[karsonkammerzell]

I remember telling someone: "There are only two consoles and Nintendo." My point being that only two console companies are ACTUALLY competing against each other; Nintendo stands alone. It just occupies so much history with people; everyone has time for Nintendo.

[EpicCamraMan]

Mario will always be my favorite game series no matter how old I get. It’s literally a part of me at this part

[aichi]

I bought nintendo one year ago. I play it a lot because I never forget to bring it with me wherever I go and I am very satisfied with nintendo. Also, What makes nintendo more appealing to me is their exclusive games such as mario, zelda, and pokemon. So, even though some people start to talk about steam deck recently, I still think nintendo is still a better choice.

[iznax]

The ''for everyone'' when we talk about Nintendo, it's very true but also extremely hard and complicated to achieve, and this is why only Nintendo can really do that
They can make games and consoles that can be enjoyed by a 4 year old all the way up to someone who's 100 year old, and from a super casual gamer all the way up to the most hardcore gamer
If you like gaming you like Nintendo, is as simple as that

[TheTimePostChannel]

No doubt that Nintendo is the absolute BEST in the whole videogames industry

[jay.p.]

They really are the most innovative gaming company out there. You see the same regurgitated shooters/walking simulators everywhere, they really have a wide variety of franchises and gameplay styles.

[Cronosonic]

The funniest thing is that there are a couple of things this video doesn't mention - firstly, while Nintendo _primarily_ focuses on more family-friendly fare, they have been known to publish more mature games - they were publishing Rare's more mature games like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark back in the day, as well as publishing Bayonetta 2 and 3, which are, well, far from family-friendly. Also, Metroid, to a somewhat lesser extent. Secondly, they have a habit of sneaking in scary and dark content into their games on occasion, such as, well, basically half of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Splatoon's entire setting being the distant aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse that drove humanity to extinction (no, seriously, the games aren't even _subtle_ about it) and even Rosalina's backstory from Super Mario Galaxy explicitly revolves around the death of her mother and her coming to terms with it.

[BobbyHo]

Pretty easy. Nintendo is the disney of video games. And they release conservative but innovative hardware.

[miggybyte]

The 90's generation will never forget Gameboy. (Even those who could not afford to buy one and just borrow from friends).