Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

bunchanumbers said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

bunchanumbers said:
Lets be honest. If Sony and MS were gaming only, and not giant mega conglomerates or near monopolies, they would both be shut down and out of the gaming business. PS3 would have killed Sony and MS would have been destroyed with the OG Xbox.

Nintendo is the only real gaming company and are just now starting to branch out into other ventures. But even then those ventures are based on their gaming ventures. The fact that they have this sort of stability even during the darkest of times shows how great Nintendo is with money.

That's also why Nintendo is least likely to take risks.

But they take massive risks with every generation. The risks are in their input devices for their consoles. Wii and Wiimotes were a massive risk. The Wii U gamepad was their safest move, and it was their worst selling console. 

An input device alone does not constitute a massive risk.

The Wii might have seemed like a massive risk, but consider the possibility that the Wii could have flopped. If it did so, Nintendo would probably have a lot less money then they do now, but it wouldn't have sinked the company. After all, the Wii is practically an extension/redesign of the Gamecube. It didn't cost them that much to make, they "never" sold it a loss.

It was new, it was "innovative", but it wasn't risky not at all.

The Gamecube was probably their biggest risk, since it was so unlike its predecessor, and so powerful for its time.