Did Microsoft just force Nintendo's hand?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

JEMC said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

So? It doesn't matter. What do you want from the company? Wii money? Nintendo had been making hand over fist out of the gate. You couldn't expect massive amounts of money so soon? Money was starting to come back into the company at a profit regardless. The PS2 sales were being used to offset the loss of the PS3. Sony takes great risks with their consoles hence why they initiated the 10 year profitability plan. Microsoft later adopted this plan so they could follow behind them with the Xbox 360 until Sony pulls the plug on the PS3. The PS3 was no longer a problem until the Vita launched. Watch. The day Sony pulls the plug on the PS3 is the day Microsoft pulls the plug on the 360. The VIta was (and still is) the big gaping hole in Sony's losses from 2011 forward. The PS3 sales have been offsetting the losses the Vita has caused thus far.

Sony took the risks and because of it since the 90's your family, my family and many other peoples families were able to to buy CD's, DVD's and Blu Rays at at fair market price from the 90's until now. Until Sony launched their consoles at a loss people could barely get their hands on those formats.

Sony's strategy is not the question here.

You said that Nintendo should drop the price of the Wii U to $250 and still make a profit (something that we don't know if it's true, btw), like Sony did with the PS3 after 4 years. But what we have to remember is that Sony is (or was) willing to take heavy losses on its hardware in their first years because they could get the money back from the other sides of the company, but that's not the case with Nintendo. Nintendo needs to profit from both software and hardware to still be profitable.

Look what happened in the last 2 years: even with the 3DS being profitable and its first party games, Nintendo has lost money because of the Wii U. And that's because they followed Sony/MSoft's strategy and sold their console at a loss. Nintendo can't do that, they need every machine to be sold for a profit and get back all the money they invested on it to use that money again in the next console.

That's the point here, Nintendo needs to focus on getting back all the money they can first, and once that goal is on track, try to get back some of the lost marketshare.

The Wii U hardware is old tech and its obvious that what is holding it back in possible cost today (if at all) is the tablet. Nintendo always operates at a profit. They never take very much risk when it comes to putting their hardware together for profitability. They even profitted during the Gamecubes situation (which most companies wouldn't have coming in third). Nintendo took the risk so now they need to take some responsibility, businesswise for their marketshare. They need to market that product as best they can. I still maintain that they should drop the price down to $250 to differentiate themselves from Microsoft by $100, because outside of that tablet thats where the consoles price should be. Microsoft will drop the price again and Nintendo got knocked off by them during the holiday season rather quickly. Everyone knows the Wii U is the weakest so why doesn't Nintendo just own up to it and try to remarket themselves as the cheaper option with their own spread of games? Come on, man. Microsofts console was only $50 more expensive than the Wii U during the holiday season..and Nintendo let themselves get trampled by Microsoft. Who was actually trying...Microsoft or Nintendo? If you say Nintendo...I don't know, bro. I don't know.