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Dunban67 on 26 February 2016
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bunchanumbers said:
Dunban67 said:

Even if the 8th gen #s were the same or a little higher (as oppossed to lower as they actally are), that is still terrible as they have had no revenue growth i a 12-15 year period in wich their industry has grown tremendously-   their revenue and market share have dropped in a tme when the size of the overal industry has grown -     When your piece of the pie is smaller today than it was 14 years ago and the size of the pie is CONSIDERABLY larger, that is not good and it indicates a downward trend... over time

Like i said, Nintendo is making a huge bet on mobile and the upcoming generation of hardware/software- 

over the past 15 years the only place they have seen growth is in the DS and Wii-   I think they will be going very hard at a similar if not the same market segment-  Youth/female/family/casual     not neccesarily in the order

Most of the growth in recent years isn't really coming from console manufacturers. Its from the AAA 3rd party publishers. They are the ones that are making the real money in the industry these days. When Nintendo saw growth with DS and Wii, they did what they do best, which is maximize those profits. Then they went back to business as usual and made steady modest profits.

When the AAA bubble bursts and the gaming industry contracts Nintendo will still be making their safe steady profits.

the Xbox brand has grown pretty steady since it launched- even the Xbox 1 is selling well compared to previous xbox hardware - it just does not seem tht way becasue the PS4 is selling at a record pace-   so both Xbox and Sony have seen  significant revenue growth during the same period in which Nintendo s revenue has contracted significantly-    Both Xbox and Sony (not to mention mobile) have taken ALOT of market share from Nintendo over the last 8-15 years

As you know, since Nintendo is also a large software developer/publisher those large 3rd party AAA devs and publshers are competing with  Nintendo as well for gaming dollars

Our household only has Nintendo (+ mobile due to I phones and i pad)  gaming consoles-  Nintendo still has lots of cash, alot of game making talent and the most well know IP in the industry-  it is not all gloom and doom-  BUT  that makes the fact that their compnay, revenue and  market share have been consistently shrinking  a negative trend and indicates a lack of execution by their mngmnt over time-  Due to that fact, they are pretty much having to make such big bets on their next gen hardware/software and mobile   (and all in a pretty close time frame) a concern-  they very well may win these bets they are making and do wonderfully-  but the track record of manegment has not been too good - lets hope they pull a wii and a DS out of the hat!