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JazzB1987 on 25 April 2013
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Horrorfest said:
Soundwave said:
MaxwellAllen said:
It's painful watching this company exist lol. It's so obvious they can't compete, they can't advertise, and they can't even plan a strategic reveal to counter their opposition. Reminds me of the Toshiba HD-DVD press conference being canceled last minute, right before they officially halted all production of HD-DVD drives.

Nintendo's stock has fallen lower than Sony's at this point. This news is negative, just like the stream of negativity surrounding everything nintendo does. The only way nintendo is going to make any real profit at this point is by going software only. Best business decision they will ever make. I'll give them 10yrs until they finally realize they're wasting their time in hardware.

It really has become the "Big 2." Sony & Microsoft.


While Nintendo is clueless about marketing/presentation/image, they've made more money than Sony in the game business every year since Sony entered the business except for like once I believe (1997). Some one had that chart, it was pretty crazy, neither Sony or MS really make all that much money from the game business.

Apparently, you weren't around when Sony dominated with the PS1 and PS2? Sony made more money than them for several years in the gaming business. Gameboy and Pokemon sales still weren't even close to have Nintendo make more money during Sony's period of dominating the industry.


Good one you should be a comedian.

Well you do know that  Nintendo made games back then? Most of sony's studios right now were bought after releasing 1 average title for the PS3 because Sony desperately wanted new IP.  They were not around in the PS2 or PS1 era. (insomniac etc is NOT sony)

So Nintendo didnt just make money with  consoles and handhelds and third party games (a few sure bit still) but they made a ton of money with their own IP where like 80% of the 50/40 dollars you had to pay went directly to Nintendo.

Sony on the other hand had not alot of  own (successful) games and not every PS2 owner  etc bought the system to play games.  My sister bought the PS1 as a music player because it had the nice visualization stuff and then she bought some games later on.

Plus sony always has alot to compensate because their RnD costs are freaking massive and their consoles dont always make a profit from day1.

I mean just think about it the Gameboy and Gameboy pocket and even the Gameboy Color which is basically a standard Gameboy with color screen and overclocked cpu have sold like 120 million units.  And the tech was even "ancient" when it came out in 1989. So every system made Nintendo a profit and the thing even sold after the GBA (which also sold like 81 million units) was out which also made Nintendo buckloads of money from day one!

You can guess how much money nintendo made by selling something thats basically a calculator for hundreds of dollars right?