Why I am not that excited with the Wii and Wii Fit sales

[FishyJoe]

Bodhesatva said:

Ail said:

FishyJoe said:
There is no comparison to Atari, I'm not sure why people keep bringing up that analogy. Atari was sold to larger corporate entities that had totally screwed up the the original company. Maybe you should study why Atari failed instead of rewriting history.

People bring it because of this gamasutra article :

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18483

Japan is the first market that has massively being overtaken by casual gaming and you can't really say that the size of the gaming industry has increased there over the last 2 years so it was done at the expense of core gaming...

The key sentence in the article is the fact that 'there are way too many new DS titles at once' which is what is worrying Japanese developers.

There's a gigantic difference between Atari then and Nintendo now, though.

Atari was positively hemmoraghing cash when the market crashed. They blew all their money in a flurry of stupid ways and it all came down so hard it was nearly unbelievable.

Nintendo is making more money than any other company in the history of gaming, and the other manufacturers -- Sony and Microsoft -- are the ones who are bleeding money out their ears. If anyone is going to cause a crash, it will be Sony and Microsoft, without question.

 

 

 

Let me repeat this, for emphasis, because it puts an end to all discussion on the topic: Atari bled a ridiculous amount of money and nearly went bankrupt. Nintendo is making more money than any company in the history of gaming.

The end.

Not only that, all their best programmers left because they refused to pay them, leaving them with no way to create any quality games. They thought they could just hire nobodies to create games and they could make lots of money.