Metallox on 31 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Giggs_11 said:
Sure, but it wont come down to just quantity of units sold. Q2 PS4 outsold WiiU 5.5 to 1 if I'm not mistaken, yet Nintendo was able to edge out Sony financially. Now imagine Nintendo had sold just as many WiiU has Sony did PS4s (and the same thing goes for software), how would the financial go?
Nintendo and Sony have completly different approaches to the gaming business. All that marketing, exclusive deals with developers, bundles, etc, cost a lot of money, I mean a lot. Yet Sony can compensate that with lots and lots of units sold. In fact, they need lots ands lots of units sold to turn profit. Nintendo relies on in-house developed software and hardware, with less fewer moneyhatting, marketing (except for their on products) and doesn't need that many sales to turn profit.
I think it will be an interesting battleto see.
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Except you seem to be forgetting that the 3DS exists...
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Excep 3DS isn't selling like in previous years. The reason on why Nintendo made this considerable amount of profit lies in the changes they made in their business model this quarter.
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
