marley on 22 December 2013
| VGhippy said: I've never seen anyone on this site claim that Nintendo is doomed. I'll happily make the claim that Nintendo should pull out of the home console business (not handhelds) and go third party because the WiiU is bleeding them money than I can ever dream of. But financially they have something like 8 billion in the bank and the profits from the 3DS prevent them from going too far into the red due to the WiiU. I repeat, Nintendo is not doomed, but the WiiU is some serious dead weight for them right now and Mario is a great franchise that actually deserves a decent userbase to sell to. For the record, I also think Sony should ditch its TV and VITA products. Sony is not doomed either btw but it's sad to see games like Uncharted GA, Gravity Rush and Killzone Mercs only get a fraction of they sales they should get because they are being released on a dead end platform with a tiny userbase. |
The problem with your conclusion is the 'right now' part. If every console maker decided to stop, simply because they were losing money on a console at some point, then no one would be making consoles. It seems 'strange' to hold Nintendo to this standard, yet ignoring that both Sony and MS have incurred losses on their consoles during each generation.
Any company that creates a console (handheld or home) has a responsibility to support it. If they don't, they will jeapordize any chance at securing a solid userbase on any other consoles or software that they release.
