What does Google's Stadia mean for Nintendo and its future?

Google just announced Stadia, a game streaming platform that will launch in 2019. What does this mean for video game companies like Nintendo?

[Moonman]

Nintendo has been around since 1889. They are like Highlander at this point...haha. They will find a way to survive.

[Zodiac]

If anything , Nintendo will be the least affected by Stadia.

[EddieNX]

Definitely

People buy Nintendo for Nintendo games.

People buy PS and XB for third party games. PS4s highest selling exclusive is 10m on an installed base of 95M.

That means like 85% of PS4 owners are playing third party gamers and if Stadia has all the same third party games, well...

Nintendo is more self sufficient than PS or XB , by far.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

"PS4s highest selling exclusive is 10m on an installed base of 95M."
No hardcore exclusive is going to sell to 100% of the install base, The majority of Sony's exclusive are AAA hardcore games.
Here are the top selling hardcore games on the Wii, a console with 100 million install base:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 13.29 mill
Super Mario Galaxy: 12.78
Super Mario Galaxy 2: 7.41 mill
The Legend if Zelda Twilight princess: 7.26 mill
This argument that selling 10 million on a console with close to 100 million is some how bad is retarded. Not every game is going to appeal to the entire install base.

[EddieNX]

There's a couple of Switch games at 15M sold on an installed base of 30M.

My point stands. Mario Kart Wii sold nearly 40m and NSMB similar on Wii.

The stadia is more of a threat to Sony and Microsoft than it is to Nintendo, if you disagree then you are "retarded"

[XabiDaChosenOne]

"There's a couple of Switch games at 15M sold on an installed base of 30M."
Nice job lying their "retard", there is only one switch game that is at 15 million and that's Mario kart 8 deluxe, a game that appeals the casual audience.
https://www.businessinsider...
MarioKart Wii and NSMB are games that appeal to the casual audience, therefore not hardcore titles. Mainline Zelda on the Wii "only" sold 7 million, Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii "only" sold 7 million. Your argument is retarded, hardcore games selling 10 million or more is an excellent feat regardless of install base.

Stadia will fail regardless because it sucks but just to play devils advocate; Nintendo exclusives didn't save the WiiU, The Gamecube, or the N64 so if Stadia were to "revolutionize" the way we play games what makes you think Nintendo would survive with its network infrastructure?

[SuperSonic91]

They will bring Mario Run, Pokemon Go and Mario Kart to Stadia like they did to Android and iOS?

[Traecy]

It means nothing. Nintendo will continue to do it's thing.

[Segata]

It means the Switch will keep selling like crazy and nothing will be affected.

[eagle21]

I wouldn't be surprised if Switch has it's best sales year yet during Stadia's year one...lol.

[neomahi]

You forget how Microsoft played the game. They had some experience with the Xbox going into the Xbox 360, but trembled in fear going into their second generation so, what did Microsoft do? Dug deep into their corporate pockets and started out buying, wait for it, exclusive DLC. Yup, DLC was pretty much born from Microsoft. Ever wonder why your games suddenly got disected and sold to you in pieces? Because that's how Microsoft won over developers. They bought them off with something appealing that didn't require much more from developers. Simply chop up your game, sell the bulk of it for $60 and then sell the rest later. Tell gamers you went on your vacation, and when you got back went hard to work on additional content, but that's not what you really did. Don't think Google won't play the same game. Nintendo has no real online server base to pull this off, they'd better have something really innovative, which would likely become gimmicky to fight it off, no, that's how Microsoft got in. It wasn't long standing and trusting relationships, no way, developers abandoned Sony quickly for a quick buck. Final Fantasy XIII was one of the first. We don't care we had a long fruitful relationship with Sony selling out game millions of units, we're gonna put the game on the competitors platform now, that's Microsoft. Not innovative and easy scorned, so they just buy what they want, plain and simple.

[SuperSonic91]

But everything ms touches turns to turd, bud. That is the problem.

[Mainman187]

NintenDEAD.

[quent]

I hope all 3 companies rips Stadia's guts out

[Cobra951]

Zero. Next question?