zorg1000 on 22 April 2015
| Giggs_11 said: People here keep discussing if Nintendo will continue to make consoles and use as an argument that it has been selling less consoles each generation (except for Wii/DS gen). Are people aware that N64 sold way less than PS1 yet Nintendo made more Money than Sony? Are people aware that gamecube sold way less than PS2 and less than Xbox and still made more Money than both combined? (Actually let's not combine since Xbox actually lost Money) Are people aware that Wii vs PS3 vs X360 wasn't even a contest (moneywise speaking of course)? If I recall correctly last financial quarter Nintendo was even doing better than both Sony's a and Microsoft's gaming divisions even after selling way less consoles. I keep saying this but people still don't listen: Nintendo needs way less sales to get profitable, Sony's and Microsoft's business strategies are much more dependable on the need to sell millions and millions of games/consoles than Nintendo's. Nintendo sells less but still make Money. Ultimately that's matters when companies decide if they'll stay in the business. Yes, Nintendo has a lot of problems they need to deal with, but I don't see them ever getting out of the console business. Only way I see them doing that is if they find another way to make more money and want to concentrate all their resources on that instead of consoles/handhelds. |
Well to be fair we don't know if Nintendo would have made money if they just had N64 & GC during those generations. Nintendo's handhelds were selling like 20 million/year in the late 90s & early 00s.
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