| Zekkyou said: Assuming they realize that they need to catch up to modern standards or risk becoming irrelevant, i agree, they'll probably be involved in gaming for the longest. It's their bread and butter after all. I don't expect any of them to leave for a very long time though. You 20m comment is somewhat baseless though. Nintendo have never sold only 20m units in a generation, and without them giving us a proper revenue break down of the GC we don't know if they could sustain themselves on an install base of only 20m. I highly doubt they could. They're too big to survive off a revenue steam that small (not without downsizing, anyway). |
ok, i do concede the 20m consoles point. what i mean to say is that they dont need to sell, say, 80m every single time to survive. they can survive off a smaller install base than the competition, who really does need to sell 80m+ to consider sticking around. this is made easier by the fact that they make their own software which makes some of the highest sales every generation. but yes, they are affected by the industry more than what my original post implies. however, i believe that if everything crashed, they are the most fit to continue on, and have the highest chance of doing so. it seems most people agree to that.
