noname2200 said:
What a delightfully...Pachter-esque...analysis. I don't know what's going on, so let's blame the currency exchange! Let us assume, for the sake of discussion, that you're somehow correct, and that the value of the Euro will continue to soar against that of the dollar (It's actually trending downwards now, and as MontanaHatchet pointed out Europe's economic future isn't looking any brighter than ours, but let us ignore reality for now, since that seems to be the name of the game for this discussion). Let us also ignore the part where I said this isn't a contest between Europe and the Americas; it's about NoA's recent localization record, and nothing more. Having made the (massive) allowances necessary to continue the discussion on your terms, we sadly see that you're nonetheless still wrong. Your entire thesis hangs on the European market being more valuable than the American one: that's why NoE is getting more games localized than NoA (by the by, care to offer proof for that assertion? Because strangely enough, I don't recall saying that...note also that pointing out one or two games won't qualify; if it did, then Terranigma implies that Europe's been getting more attention than the Americas since the SNES era. Do you really want to make that assertion?). And yet the European market only passed the Americas in terms of profitability two months ago, and that by only a narrow margin (some of which is owed to the Euro having almost half-again the value of the dollar, but those gains have been vanishing recently). So why has Nintendo of America been acting like this for the past three years? Does Nintendo employ augurs and fortune-tellers, who tell them to start acting in a certain manner that kinda sorta complies with what the market will do three years into the future? Or do you reckon that maybe you're trying to use (flawed) present data to retroactively explain things that have been happening for a while now? Long story short: in the highly unlikely event that you're right about the future, what does that have to do with explaining what happened in the past? |
I apologize for being ignorant of Europes current economic situation. Last I heard(which was incorrect I might add) they were at 2 to 1 and expected to rise from there. So i was using flawed data about the present to explain things.
I asserted that there was less risk of releasing niche titles because of higher profit per unit in an area with a larger market. I thought I stressed it was all about less risk and not overall profitability of the market enough though apparently I was wrong.
Pardon me once again, I felt your mention in paragraph 3 at the beginning of the thread about Europe having exclusives seem to set the tone for contest between the two even though that was not your intention.
I would also like to apologize for the tone of my posts. I should not have been so antagonistic. Your exaggeration and extra assertions didn't help me, but still I am soley responsible for the things typed from this keyboard.
Given thier practically unforseen domination of the playing field I wouldn't be too surprised if they have telented fortune tellers though ;)
