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Squilliam on 17 November 2010
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phenom08 said:
Squilliam said:

You're making a similar argument to why the DS wouldn't sell.

DS won't sell because Sony are lord and masters and they have the uber powerful PSP which will leverage their massive 100M plus console userbase and leave little room for such a niche device.

Kinect won't sell because Nintendo are lord and masters and they have uber powerful brand and unique software so Microsoft doesn't have a hope in competing outside of a niche.

Releasing a half baked software/hardware device and then improving upon it hasn't stopped Apple from making even more profit than Nintendo nor sell more devices than Nintendo whilst showing even more growth than Nintendo. There is obvious room for improvement within the time-frame which will increase the value proposition or decrease the cost or both, even on a 12 month timescale.

To put things in perspective, Kinect is currently selling around as fast as the Wii when it originally launched if I read the articles correctly.

 

 

This has to be the second or third time I have seen you compare Apple to Nintendo, you clearly see Microsoft as a hardware selling company that isn't anywhere near as good as they are. Apple and Nintendo aren't comparable at all. Apple releases alot of new hardware every year and have more products than Nintendo which is why they sell more hardware and make more money. Nintendo can't release new hardware every year, they would alienate their existing userbase because the newer games wouldn't work on the older hardware which isn't a problem for Apple. I don't know if you knew this or not but Nintendo has sold more DSes and Wiis than Apple has sold Iphones. Also just because Apple can sell hardware like they do doesn't mean Microsoft can do the same, just ask the Zune. ; )

Is Microsoft a hardware selling company? No. They sell services and platform software and hardware to be honest like a cosmic middle man.

How aren't Apple and Nintendo comparable? They both sell machines in the media/entertainment segments of the consumer electronics industries. They both sell handhelds and they both compete in adascent and overlapping markets. But also Apple is the anti-Nintendo and the counter examples to common arguments surrounding Nintendo.

P.S. Apple sold 14M iPhones in a quarter IIRC.



Tease.