| TheProphet said: Ninetendo has been running at a loss for some time now, so they are experienced at that. This should also tell them the importance of getting a good product to market. Unless they do it will not last. I don't know why they don't make their consoles upgradable likee the pc, add more ram, etc. I put a 500g disk in my PS3. i don't think they know the market that well (gamecube), and just got lucky with the Wii. It won't last. I suspect they will stick to what they know, even though they got mounds of cash in the bank, and won't sell at a loss. |
....what? You do realise that out of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft that Nintendo have been the ones in the console business the longest, made the most profit etc etc. Even since the PS1/N64 era when Sony were 'dominating' Nintendo has remained the most profitable.
Of all the console makers the one we can state knows the market best is Nintendo. I believe last year was in fact their first annual loss in the company's 100year+ history. So how does that even equal 'running at a loss for some time now''?
Also what does being able to upgrade a PS3 HDD have with making consoles able to have more RAM? One is simply storage that only affects your system. The other is something that would mean developers had to adapt games for two configurations etc. They tried that with the N64 and it's RAM pak and it didn't work out so well.
Honestly I think all the console makers should sell their hardware at a profit or at the very least a minimal loss. Sony made such massive losses with the PS3 in those early years that even by the end of this generation they won't have recouped them. I believe MS might be in the same boat but don't know their figures well enough. With Sony it was mostly to get Blu-ray successful. Which worked. Of course whether it would have regardless of the PS3 though is always a possibility. Either way the profits were going to a different division.
So yea Nintendo should sell at a profit, which should be easier with a pack in game if they go that route. And MS and Sony really should sell at a profit too or at least sell at a small enough loss that the sales of just a couple of games can make them break even.
