Sales, Bottom Dollars, and Nintendo Launch Profits

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You cant really say that which one took the bigger risk, Nintendo or Sony. Both took big riks, but the risks are completely diffent. PS3 might sound a big risk for Sony, but it really isnt. Even in the worst scenario PS3 will sell lots over 10 million and this will help the Blu-Ray take over the HD-DVD. And that prints money. Wii also looks like a big risk, because its different, but even in the worst scenario, it would also sell far over 10 million, but it makes profit and they still have the DS. But Wiis failure could have lead Nintendo to exiting the home console markets, and perhaps become either only handheld company or even 3rd party. Micro$oft took a bigger risk with Xbox than with 360, but its hard to tell that do they even know what they are doing. Sony played Safe by doing the same what they had done before. Nintendo took the risk by bringing something new. I would raise a hat to Nintendo for bringing something new with risking its home console market. Game developers making profit is important for gamers too. This ensures that quality titles is coming still in the future. Theoretically no one wins if the developer sells hardware with a loss. About add-ons etc. Nintendo usually is developing something new for their home consoles, so i would think that we will see (or at least Japan sees) add-ons (there was at some point a DVD add-on planning), new controllers and others. But usually Nintendo focuses on features which affects in playing the games. But as with the DS, i think so too, that it has resources which has not been fully used yet. I personally dont need movie or MP3 player to my DS, but some may find it usable (the player mentioned earlier, i think it is for GBA originally), analog stick could also be good and the GBA link would be nice.