Nintendo should exit console making and create a channel instead!

[thranx]

cusman said:

dahuman said:
It's actually kinda funny to read when Nintendo made the most money on the gaming front making their own hardware vs MS/SONY lol. If anybody should exit the hardware making ATM, it should be Sony, not Nintendo, based on the simple business decision that they can bring their IPs to other platforms as well after going in the red so damn much. It'd be more interesting to see MS vs Nintendo right now. Sony is not even really relevant in that equation even though they have some really good games.

I agree that Sony needs to get themselves out of a lot of Hardware markets (HDTV, eReader, Camera, Speakers, Receivers, etc), but they need to stick with the Playstation line in both Hardware and Software.

Nintendo is doing fine, but last couple of years have been brutal to them with declining sales and strong Yen. They need the Wii U to be a big success which I think the machine will be because it is packed full of value and has really engaging fun software.

MS is the only vendor in the market that doesn't bring any hardware value. They do bring services innovation and value with XBL and some other innovations long replicated by the others. If they don't produce unique software for their consoles and rely completely on being console of choice for majority sales of 3rd party ports, than eventually they will lose the multi-platform gamers like me who just don't use their machine that much.

Hard drives in consoles, ethernet cards in consoles, mics for online, kinect, and easy to program architecture. Yea no value to any of those items.