DonFerrari said:
Eagle367 said:
That would be an effective argument had the switch not sold well because of the Wii U or people who bought the Wii U loving it as a console. It's a much smaller group of people than the PS3 and of course not a 100% love it but still ultimately as we are discussing business and sales, I think Ninty's strategy was much more effective than Sony's. Ninty lost less money, recovering in a couple years time what they lost, showed they still can make a successful console, is recovering third party support which it lost, gained a lot of trust and goodwill from the indies during the Wii U era and still produced quality games which the fans adored and not all of them are yet on the switch for a bigger audience. Hell some games just can't be as good as they were on the Wii U like zombiU or Rayman legends. It was a dark time for sure but never a 100% negative time. The wiiU taught ninty some really important lessons and helped Ninty in some subtle ways which people fail to acknowledge.
But ultimately the past is behind us and we can look back at both consoles as something that people who bought them adored for the most part while their successors are huge successes for the companies, console gaming and gamers alike. I hope the console marker stays strong especially against the upcoming streaming competition and PS5, neXtbox and switch 2(probably?) are all successful consoles that improve our gaming experience and deliver awesome games
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It was asked why PS3 is considered a bigger money loser, that is the explication.
And for the Switch, you can be sure most of the sales come from the HH folks. Besides Wii that had the blue ocean new market since SNES no console from Nintendo had sold more than 40M.
So the people buying Switch aren't doing it because they loved WiiU (well even if they did, that wouldn't be more than 15M of Switch sales).
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And? I never said people are buying the switch because they loved Wii U. You said that people were buying the PS4 because they loved PS3 and I'm just pointing out the previous gen really doesn't matter all that much. The people are buying the PS4 and switch because of their own merits and not their predecessors good and bad points. My question was more of a statement rather than a question in what sort of business decisions was Sony making at the time. It was a stupid decision
