NintendObs Thinks: Nintendo's success is becoming more and more expected.
Indeed, I for one am getting tired of winning.
You know, it’s a weird thing to admit but it’s getting tiresome to have to report every quarter and every year how good the Nintendo Switch business is doing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy about Nintendo’s success just like the next Nintendo lover, especially as someone who’s been through the gruesome drama that was being a console Nintendo player during the Wii U era. But I can’t help to feel like constantly having to cover how Nintendo just reached a new record and a new one, first surpassing the Nintendo 3DS then overcoming the Wii etc., feels somewhat redundant, easily predictable and therefore less prone to celebration.
Like I’ve suggested before, we already know how it’s going to proceed over the next two to five years. Nintendo is going to milk the Nintendo Switch as much as they can until even they will become tired of working on it, not to mention with no real competition around they would be fools not to do so. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in spite of their dramatic launch fanfares have no negative impact whatsoever on the sales of Nintendo Switch, and the same goes for any other cursory project who may try to emulate the Kyoto firm’s effective concept. Nintendo is on cloud nine, Nintendo Switch is on cloud nine, making the surprise and what would be worth reporting not that the platform is about to outsell PlayStation 4 and even Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2, but rather that something unplanned, something random would prevent Nintendo’s cash cow from accomplishing what it is on track to materialize.
This is why Nintendo’s latest financial announcements for the fiscal year ending March 2022 appear somewhat uninteresting to me in the big picture — while they entirely are worth a look in the details — even though they only bring great omen to what’s coming next from Nintendo on Nintendo Switch. In a quirky “un-Nintendo” way in terms of perspective, this success is more of the same for a company known to output exactly the opposite, notwithstanding the fact that such a fertile circonstance will justifiably allow Nintendo to fund and dare more unforeseen ventures given how, with more than 100 million Nintendo Switches sold and now more than 100 million yearly active users, anything that Nintendo drops and promotes on their console will bring the dough to the house of Mario.