Which Company Will Be The Next To Leave The Gaming Industry...

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Rpruett said:

Sony the company is more equipped to perservere through difficulty than Nintendo is, simply put.  I've been hearing Sony is 'doomed' since 2006 or before.  Nintendo didn't change their strategies with the Wii,  they resorted to desperation strategy.  I'm not saying Sony is infalliable.  They just have more resources to give up than Nintendo if things hit the fan and you don't give up your best division within the company when the rest of your company is struggling.

I never said  Sony is doomed.  I'm saying they are just as susceptible to failure as any other company, including Nintendo.  The fact that Sony is a bigger company is irrelevant; they are currently doing poorly in other divisions as well, not just gaming. And no, the Wii was absolutely not a "desperation strategy" lol.  That would insinuate that they lost money in order to gain marketshare, something that Sony tried this gen, and failed at.

I'm not talking profit numbers, I am talking wide scale success.  The greatest danger for Nintendo is getting pushed aside as a niche product.  The handheld market is probably on its way out the door in the near future,  and increasingly the industry itself is getting more complicated.  Nintendo has never dealt as well in these avenues as Sony or MS.

The fact that you separate profit numbers from wide scale success is the very reason your argument fails.  Sony could drop the price of the PS3 tomorrow to $49.99 and the Vita to $19.99 and experience unheard of success in systems sold, but they'd go broke.  You fail to realize that there is a balance between the two in order to remain successful, somethng that Nintendo has proven to be better at than Sony.  "Niche product" or not, Nintendo made a veritable fortune this generation while Sony lost billions (yes, billions) with the PS3.  Check out D21Lewis' thread about the PS3's success.  Many (including myself) would agree that to us (the gamers) the PS3 was a great console.  But to Sony it was a catastrophy because it lost a lot of money, lost a lot of marketshare, and allowed the "Xbox" name to replace the "Playstation" brand here in the states for this generation.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=138541

Nobody is saying that Sony can't turn things around next gen; of course they could, particularly with blu-ray and the cell widely established now.  Just don't pretend that Nintendo has a worse track record than Sony at sustaining their business.