| FayeC said: Not now, Apple stands to be the one to erode most of Nintendo's marketshare. Might as well wait for that to stop producing results before you spend money buying them. Imagine how much more it would have cost them to buy Nintendo in the Wii/DS era? Now Imagine how much less they could be worth a generation from now. I'm not convinced post Iwata Nintendo is going to do very well. |
righttttt, Nintendo is so 'dead' that they are massively the largest software developer in the industry by sales (probably something like 5x over the next closest), are the only remaining contendor in the handheld market really, and lately in weekly sales (even with a terribly marketed and designed system) aren't even that far behind the X-ONe, a system backed by the biggest company in the world (Microsoft)
Apple's wealth is extremely inflated anyway, they don't produce anything raw that actually has real world long term worth. At least Microsoft has a staple in every household with their practically required programs (Microsoft Word, Windows). Apple creates cute thin phones. They do not have anything that justifies the value of their business. good sales, obviously, yes, but its not as if they own some magical intellectual property that gurantees their future success (curved edges on their style of phone is litearlly all they have!)
and Nintendo is valued lower than they were in the Wii/DS eras but it is no some massive difference. in the end its their IPs that make them so valuable, and they still are dominant in some respects in the gaming industry (software sales vs. any other company AND handhelds).
All it will take is a normal logical home console from Nintendo to skyrocket them up again. lets just so hope they have the sense not to do the whacky tablet or motion control thing again :O we want a normal controller Nintendo! stop making us plug in adapters to play Smash and things
