if nintendo stopped making consoles....

[jarrod]

nordlead said:

Joelcool7 said:

I wonder last I heard Nintendo was climbing in value I remember it being worth 6-billion dollars during the GameCube era and I believe I heard a little while ago that the company was now worth over 9-billion and climbing towards 10-billion. So how many massive losses would Nintendo have to make in a row to actually fail. I believe what was it Microsoft lost 400-mill on the X-Box. So that would indicate Nintendo could fail as bad as the origional X-Box for almost a century. Nintendo could survive 25 generations before going bankrupt. I highly doubt that any failures could lead them to leaving the hardware industry.

Judging from Nintendo's history of always turning a profit I doubt Nintendo could ever loose enough money to abandon the hardware industry. Even the GameCube at 99.99$ was still turning a profit for Nintendo. Some said that if Nintendo left the hardware industry that share holders would force them to make games for competitors. Remember Nintendo was origionally a toy manufacturer and Entrepenuer. If Nintendo left gaming they could easily move into manufacturing toy's, card games, books, movies and a wide array of other products based on their existing properties.

 

Microsoft lost ~$4B on the XBox and ~$9B total in their gaming/entertainment devision.

I thought it was only ~$6.5B?  360 lost less than Xbox 1 (~$2.5B iirc), and now it's actually making the division profitable.  Or are you adding pre-Xbox figures for the E&S Div (which was like WebTV and Mac Office?)?