z64dan said:
Gosh, maybe the company competing against them would care? I know Microsoft for SURE would care (Just like NINTENDO cares about the PSP). The PSP was on track to match the DS sales, until December 2005 when the market share split substantially. Do you think Nintendo cares if Sony profits from Sony's games? Nintendo sees ANY game revenue Sony gets as revenue Nintendo DID NOT get. Sony revenue = Nintendo loss. It's that simple. People have a limited amount of money to spend on games, and 22 million people decided to buy a PSP instead of a DS and an extra game. So do the math. 22 million PSPs plus however many millions of games they sold, times how much everything costs, and that is the sum of the money that Nintendo was not able to get. You think Nintendo cares if they lose $1 billion potential revenue? WHO WOULDN'T?? Would Microsoft care if people were getting an OS from another company, that is comparable to their own OS, and 20-30% of the computers were using it? Of course they would. |
Actually that's not what Nintendo sees at all. In fact, what Nintendo cares about, and what they have always cared about, is pure profit. There is a very valid argument that the PSP's existence (it's price comparisons and game library comparisons) has BOOSTED Nintendo's DS sales FAR past what it would have been if Sony hadn't been around. Think about it this way: Do you think Nintendo liked it better when there was just GBA around and they had 30 million sales at this point, or now when the have the DS vs the PSP and have 44 million units sold at this point (a 1/3 plus profit increase in system sales, and a HUGE profit jump in software sales). Of COURSE they prefer the scenario where they are making signifficantly more money.
So, I'm not arguing that the PSP was at least (somewhat) of a success, but to believe it harmed Nintendo at all is ludicrous.
