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Mazty on 18 March 2013
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DanneSandin said:
Mazty said:
curl-6 said:

Mazty said:

Lost market share =/= failure. 

Exactly, so the Wii U will not be one even if it doesn't match Wii sales.

Because it will almost certainly make more money than the PS3; Sony lost nearly  $5 BILLION in the first few years of that system, Nintendo will never lose that much on Wii U.

No that's a fallacy as lost market share isn't the only factor. Also the PS3 holds, like the 360, about a third of the market. Going from ~40% to maybe 15% shows a gross miscalculation by Nintendo.

Also I know Sony as an entire corporation lost $5 bill....Any links for the $5bill loss on the PS3 alone?

Isn't that drop similar to Sony's drop from 75% to 30%?

Yep. Sony cocked up in several ways - last to market, highest price etc. Maybe that's the reason they have been first on the scene with the PS4? Still though Sony have managed to secure bluray and retain a sizeable amount of the market. 15% of the market is really quite pitiful and the question has to be asked with such an amount, is that company still relevant?

DanneSandin said:

Yeah, he really has some seriously flawed logic... Just like you said, how Wii U is a failure for lossing a small amount of money, and that PS3 is a stunning success, and that having a 10% attach rate on a game for a Nintendo console is bad, while the same facts don't seem to apply to a 10% ratio on a Sony console.

No one said the PS3 was a stunning success. Try not to make strawman arguments. 

The issue is go look at the "spike" in sales SSBB caused for the wii. It simply didn't. At most it caused a 250k boost for a week, and then went straight back down to standard levels. SSB clearly isn't a system seller and I can't see why people think it is.