mothman on 03 May 2012
| Soleron said: Sony and Microsoft's way of doing things is unsustainable. I believe Sony is only just back to being net positive ever since they entered the console industry, and MS is still in net negative? They'd both have made more money not entering consoles and just diversely investing the money since 1995/2000. They both justify it because Playstation and Xbox brands are great advertising and launching points for their other businesses. MS invests in anything at all that would attract people to Windows and Office, it's almost happy to lose billions forever if it keeps people tied to one of those things. Same with Sony and TVs or Blu-ray. Nintendo has no other business, games are it, it's not financially acceptable for them to be in the red every time a new console launches. |
If they can turn it around in a year or less and make the money on software in the meantime I think that will work just fine. If they had gone that way with the 3DS from launch they'd already be out of the red on it. In the end it's no biggie really. Nintendo remains the only game in town as far as the handheld market is concerned. It can only get better from here.
