if nintendo stopped making consoles....

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jarrod said:

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?)?

Yeah its kind of hard to know for sure. Mac Office must be a huge profit generator since pretty much every Mac user buys it. Rolling that into 360 figures could really sway the numbers. Not sure about WebTV and Zune though.  I'm assuming we will really never know for sure just how much money MS has burned, but its certainly more than they would like us or their shareholders know. If they can't turn it around next gen profit-wise they should be facing some tough questions- especially if they end up in last place (may or may not happen).