Kaizar said:
Even Microsoft looses lots of money in video gaming, if if it were to do PS4 sells. It seems only Nintendo is in the Black in the video game market. The PS4 still gets outsold by the 3DS almost every week, which can't be good news in general for any systems sells. |
But Nintendo isn't in the black now, and past performance doesn't matter. They're in the red for two years, and in those two years it was still supported a fair bit by sales of DS and Wii games but those have almost run out.
It'll be interesting to see if enough 3DS & Wii U games sell this year to bring them in the black. I don't expect it.
3DS of course is still doing pretty well, but as I mentioned it 50% of DS success, also handheld is a less lucrative business than console due to lower attach rate and lower game prices. Overall I consider 1 console == 2 handhelds in terms of net revenue.
Wii + DS dream team, 100 million console units + 150 million handheld units = ~175 net revenue units.
Wii U + 3DS shit team, 6 million console units + 43 million handheld units = ~27.5 net revenue units.
It's not good dude, it's not good. If we were looking at this and could say it's still early days for Wii U & 3DS it would be good, but the trajectories for both of them aren't good.
