Nintendo's down, but not out.

[DanneSandin]

Mazty said:

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?

Nintendo was first to the scene with Wii U, remember? And I don't know where you're pulling these 15% from? As far as I know Wii U currently has 100% of 8th gen sales... Fact. and Sony hasn't secured shit with bluray. physical format is dying, digital is what it's all about, and I still haven't seen DVD die out. bluray is just another format out there, competing with DVD and digital.

It would seem that you're ignoring history. GC had something like 15%, right? I think that's where I got that number from. Was Nintendo really NOT relevant after the GC? Wii was as relevant as a console can be, so that last question from you really was ignorant.

And you still ignore the price Sony had to pay to retain a sizeable market share. They lost billions. Like I said before, It's a somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory