| artur-fernand said: ...but didn't they make a lot of money with the Wii and DS? They sold like hot cakes (a combined 250+ million, I mean, holy shit), were profitable from the start, and Wii games weren't nearly as expensive as HD games. So... what's with this argument? Shouldn't they have a lot of money now, to try and estabilish a strong installed base for a more traditional, powerful console? Not as much money as MS, but probably more than Sony right? Especially before the PS4 released? What did they do with that money? Or am I full of bullshit here? |
You act as if Nintendo should invest all their decades worth of profit into a device LOL. What if that device failed? They would lose all their money. Nintendo is smart enough to not do this.
The rate that they research, develop, produce, market, and sell their devices makes their company a lot safer just in case something like the Wii U occurs. They could survive 5 Wii U's in a row (with NO 3ds to help them, in this hypothetical) and then finally run out of money. They aren't Microsoft. They don't waste $5billion randomly on something like Minecraft. They are extremely frugile.
