leper-apostle said:
archbrix said:
leper-apostle said:
archbrix said:
Squilliam said:
Nintendo's luck ran out. Simply the same reason why Sony fell as well, there is no manifest destiny in the console or handheld market and a large part of the great success they both had previously is simply good fortune. |
Wrong, except for, "there is no manifest destiny in the console or handheld market".
Nintendo's dominance in the handheld market has been due to appealing to what the market wanted.
Sony fell because of a chain of bad decisions.
Microsoft excelled because of a chain of great decisions.
Almost nothing to do with luck in all cases...
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Sony fell? 80 million and 35% market share their first try = falling? LOL.
The writing is on the wall for N, people won't admit it but it is, we'll see in a few years, pachter is not the only one seeing it.
Nintendo lost core gamers ages ago, releasing the wii-u wont change that, those people will just play on their ps3's and xbox's until ps4 and Xbox 720 come out.
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The fact that Squilliam used the term "fell" (as in, failed to accomplish what they had prior) and referred to consoles as well, lead me to assume that he was talking about the PS3; in which they did fall. Hard.
Lol, which writing would that be? Pachter's nonsense or the fact that 3DS broke sales records at a time where smartphones are at their most prevalent to date?
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The ps3 hardly fell, it was a major factor in bluray winning the format war, and has sold faster then the xbox 360, it just launched later.
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The statement wasn't that the PS3 fell; it was that Sony fell with the PS3. They've lost BILLIONS this gen, tons of marketshare and the console's sales pale in comparison to its predecessor.
And the PS3 was hardly the key integral factor of blu-ray's success. That would be the fact that every single major movie studio except Universal was going with blu-ray, many (such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, etc) exclusively.
