| Conner52 said: Nintendo isn't the giant corporation that Sony is. They don't have profits from thousands of other products to fall back on. Nintendo can't take many risks financially. |
Actually, Nintendo has far more cash in reserves than the entire Sony corporation. I believe Nintendo has over $10 billion in their war chest (and by that I mean money that's just sitting around gathering interest, not their market cap). I once heard that Nintendo could literally keep making the exact same amount of payments to their employees, partners, and creditors, not sell a single product, and still stay in business for fifteen years. For all its size and divisions, Sony doesn't even come close to Nintendo's financial strength.
I don't think there's much exaggeration in saying that Nintendo can take more risks than nearly any other company in the world. They can certainly do more than Sony as a whole, let alone Sony Computer Entertainment.
