| Metallicube said: It took Nintendo about 15 years, 2 failed systems (N64 and Gamecube), and near irrelivence in the industry to finally force them to change their tune and create the phenomenon that was the Wii. Don't expect them to bend easily, or soon. It will likely take them the entire generation of the failing Wii U, and maybe even another, for Nintendo to finally wake up an create a console that sells again. They posess the ability to do it, they just refuse to for some odd reason. I love Nintendo, but they are perhaps the most stubborn company I've ever known. It is simply maddening. |
If the N64 and Gamecube made money then they aren't failed systems in my eyes. Sure they kept losing userbase but if you keep making profit then that says something. Hard to tell though considering they lump hand helds and consoles systems together but neither system lost money overall. The only system they lost money on was the Virtual Boy. Now that was a failure. Sure it is bad to lose consumers to competitors. However, Nintendo has always found a way to make profit. Same can't be said of companies like Blackberry which lost consumers and didn't make profit. As long as you are making profit then you are doing something right. Microsoft and Sony have barely made any % of profit that Nintendo has in the video game industry. Microsoft has to bleed money to get an userbase while Sony keeps selling systems at a loss during launch (huge losses for PS3 launch).
