finalsquall said:
Agreed! Too much fuel being dumped on the fire will make it burn out quicker. Nintendo need their hardcore. Basically you could say, that the GC had most Hardcore to keep em afloat. They shouldn't neglect their fans for the sake of maxium financial return. |
LOL
Here from Reuters. (5th largest comapany in the second largest economy.) "to become Japan's fifth-biggest company by market value on Thursday, propelled higher by a stellar earnings performance on demand for its Wii and DS game gear."
That is just in video games, no operating systems or flat screen televisions. 370 billion yen or about 3.233 billion dollars of profit last year the whole world the industry was 31.6 billion of REVENUE(from business week)"$31.6 billion in 2006".
Revenue from Nintendo is 966 billion yen or 8.1 billion US ("The Kyoto-based company said on Thursday in its fourth outlook hike this year that earnings would exceed its January forecast on stronger-than-expected revenue of about 966 billion yen ($8.1 billion), but it did not give specific profit numbers.")
8.1/31.6 = .256
Nintendo is 25.6% of the whole industry, hardware, software, mobile phones, cheap little TV devices from China, Xbox boxes, Playstations, Eyetoys, Halos, etc. etc. etc.
That is one quarter of the whole industry.'
EDIT and that was in '06 with only one and a half months of the Wii being out.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
