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| Untamoi said:
I doubt Nintendo could hurt MS even if they would want. MS made 17.8 billion dollar profits last year (more than Apple) and has 40 billion cash in reserve just waiting to be used. So, MS could easily afford even next generation with huge loss if they want. They don't want to because they want profits for shareholders but if Nintendo launches next generation console first, they will definitely launch their console soon after that even with loss. Then again, even Nintendo have a lot of money (not as much as MS but they are also smaller company) so even they could make risk with next generation. Sony, however, can't afford making such big losses. They don't have big profits or cash reserves so they wouldn't want getting big losses again. Sure, they have biggest assets of the 3 but assets only matter when you sell them and I doubt they would like to do that because that also could hurt future revenue and profits. |
I don't think either Sony or MS have a choice here tbh All Nintendo needs is a console powerful enough to get multiplats that aren't cut down and they're fine, reason for this is because most devs just port over their work to different platforms but with the Wii they take reworking. The next Nintendo Console should be able to handle mps that don't suffer as much as on Wii and it's this which will be a bigger problem for Sony and MS then anything else as it will come down to first party strength and tbh Nintendo are on form in that area.
These two can not afford to wait around when such a console arrives as they'll fall heavily behind as the Wii will just transfer momentum to the new console like the DS is doing for its successor.
