Pachter: "Wii U won't save Nintendo, phones took 35% of the market"

[Train wreck]

RolStoppable said:

Squilliam said:

HappySqurriel said:

A smaller piece of a bigger pie may still be more pie ... While companies may want a bigger piece of pie, they really just want more pie

 

Mmmmm Pie

Nintendo's recent losses are quite telling aren't they? If they still had strong software revenues they wouldn't be posting such losses now would they? Not enough pie IMO.

RolStoppable said:

Your task was to provide evidence that Nintendo's business has been impacted. This chart doesn't show that. Post revenue numbers instead of percentages. They won't show a decline for Nintendo beyond the typical end of generation one.

My task was to have my pie and eat it too. Your task was to make some kind of witty response, I have obviously succeeded in spite of your failure.

Let me guess: You aren't going to post the revenue numbers, because they have never been revealed. Only the percentages are public, because certain people want to distort reality with such misleading pie charts.

Nintendo's losses aren't rooted in declining software revenues, but rather complete miscalculation of what the market wants. Stereoscopic 3D has basically no worth when it comes to selling hardware, but it increases the manufacturing costs tremendously.

Well its kind of hard to post revenue numbers from companies that are not public, which a lot of indie publishers for ios and android are.  You can look at the deverlopers who are public who support both platforms and will find that sales have been steady for their mobile platforms and have collapsed for the DS and PSP, EA IR is a good example.  And the revenue declines occured during the height of the DS in 2009.