Kerotan said:
sc94597 said:
Kerotan said:
sc94597 said:
How many times do we have to go through this. Businesses are profit-maximizing. Whoever makes the most profit, "wins" in the short-term. Whoever wins in the long-term can't really be predicted, otherwise companies would be able to organize around this long-term prediction and succeed.
Nintendo will likely be more profitable in the end.
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Nintendo is probably worth 15BN total. Microsoft probably makes more than that in total profit each year. Nintendo might be the most profitable in terms of games but if you are arguing who will live the longest my money would be on Microsoft.
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I don't know. Nintendo is the older of the two companies. Profit doesn't mean one will live longer. Profit is just the motive. Some companies can make profits greater than 100 years of another company and then they still die within a year. That wasn't what I was saying though.
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If Nintendo don't move to mobile pc and or other bigger home consoles they won't be around long. Apple are in a good position if you mean hardware wise.
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As long as Nintendo makes profits they should be able to survive. Sure Nintendo is endagered if they don't make profits, but they are a pretty low-risk company that has adapted before. Nintendo is the only one of the gaming companies that is mostly a gaming company. They are also still a very large company that has the same benefits of economy of scale that Microsoft and Sony have, when it comes to gaming. They can take future losses if they must, and they must because they have nothing else to turn to. Rather though, I think Nintendo will recognize what it must do to make profits and it will do it.
