Forbes - Is the death of consoles inevitable?

[bunchanumbers]

BraLoD said:

bunchanumbers said:

They are. Not just through recent history, but look at their entire history. They have been around for 130 years. A company isn't around that long without being good at business.

Also I doubt that we're going to see 160m units from Xbox and PlayStation.

They are not, Nintendo is constantly dropping in all kinds of good aspects as sales numbers, profit, and brand power.
Nintendo depends as much of third party support as any of the others console makers. They lose support, they lose power.

Nintendo is not self sustainable, just wait to see if the NX fails again how self sustainable they are, as if the Wii U is not already more than enough proof they are not and they need support in this bussiness just like everyone else does.

And what does that "doubt 160M XBOX and PS" is supposed to support here? When did a Nintendo home console did that much? Wii U won't be reching 20M or maybe not even 15M sales with lack of third party support, Nintendo desperatedly need support.

160m units is what Xbox and PlayStation sold last gen. Like I said I don't see them selling that many units. There will be contracting this generation.

The funny thing is that it doesn't really matter how many consoles Nintendo sells. They still are profitable. It doesn't matter what Wii U reaches, they're still making money. As for NX failing, they specifically restructured themselves in case they do have to stand alone. They consolidated their handheld and console teams. They made NX so that games can work on the handheld and console with little effort. They are maximizing their software output to avoid droughts.

Nintendo could quite easily be the only one making games on NX and be fine. Sony and MS would have both folded under the circumstances Nintendo deals with on a daily basis.