oniyide on 06 September 2014
| Shadow1980 said: The Saturn was definitely the iceberg to Sega's Titanic. It was an utter failure in the West thanks to a bungled launch, high price, and lackluster library, and though it was Sega's best-selling console in Japan, it was still niche, selling only 6 million units. In the U.S. it sold only 1.36 million lifetime, and in Europe it was less than that. Globally it didn't even hit 10 million units. With practically nonexistent handheld division (the Game Gear was essentially dead sales-wise and the Nomad was basically a handheld Genesis, and it sold terribly as well) Sega didn't have anything to fall back on, either. The Dreamcast was doomed from the beginning. At that point Sega had no choice but to cut their losses and withdraw from making hardware. The Saturn was just a big expensive disaster. For all of its struggles, the Wii U is no Saturn. It's sold far more rapidly than the Saturn, having already far exceeded the Saturn's lifetime sales in the U.S. and Europe. The hardware was not a significant loss leader, and apparently it's overall profitable now. Sales have been improving somewhat as well, though they're still low. Nintendo also has a successful handheld division to bolster the company's hardware sales. Finally, Nintendo is a very solvent company capable of weathering losses like those incurred by the Wii U for probably two more decades before they went bankrupt. While the Wii U isn't a success by any stretch, it's far from a Saturn-level disaster and will likely sell about double what the Saturn did and will likely net Nintendo a modest profit in the long run. Nintendo is in no danger of being forced to exit the hardware business like Sega was. |
all good, but what about the HOME console buisness? serious question.
