Sony does what Nintendon't!

[Sky Render]

CGI-Quality said:

Sky Render said:
Really, the only thing Sony does that Nintendon't is make poor investment decisions. Though that almost goes without saying, as pretty much EVERY business makes worse investment decisions than Nintendo. Seriously, I've never seen any company as over-cautious as Nintendo. Even when they "lose", they still win. Dr. Doom would be jealous of their ability to turn anything to their advantage. And to Sony's credit, I've seen many that make far worse investment choices than they do.

 

How does Nintendo win even if they lose? I mean no disrespect to Nintendo but after the 64 gen and the GC gen if they weren't on top this gen I think NIntendo might have ended up like Sega.

By making a profit even on underperformers, of course. N64 and GameCube, while not market dominators, still earned them more than they spent on them. Perhaps not a gigaton more as the Wii is doing, but it still allowed them to go well over break even. Sega tried to play hardball, taking losses on hardware in hopes of making it up on software sales when they couldn't afford to. That's why Sega failed: not because their hardware sold too few units, but because they required too many games sold to break even. Nintendo has avoided taking that risk ever since the Famicom almost sunk them during its launch year due to a defect.