spemanig said:
I'm sorry. Let me do the popular thing and pretend it's unrealistic expect that Nintendo will ever have a leading platform again. |
It is unrealistic though not impossible. Even the Wiimote ... they didn't invent it, the guy who created wanted badly to sell it to Microsoft and Sony first.
What are the odds of such a breakthrough falling in their laps again. The other thing is this time around I don't see Sony getting overconfident simply because their other divisions have taken such a beating (like TVs and stereos) that they cannot afford to let the Playstation brand ever slip again. If the Playstation brand falls then they'll have what? One division (insurance, lol) that reliably makes money? With Kaz Hirai (from the Playstation division itself) now the head of Sony, that division will always be a priority.
Most changes in leadership position in this business have come from the market leader totally fucking up some how, only then is an oppurtunity created.
30 million console NXs + 50 million portable NXs + $700-$1 billion in mobile revenue/year (Square-Enix made $630 mill from mobile last year, Nintendo can beat that I'm betting) ... I think they will have a very, very healthy business at least. There's no reason to have to be market leader, though it would be nice in some ways.
Truth be told Nintendo always acts like a drunken idiot when they have market leadership, it's probably for the best that they are stable/strong secondary hardware provider.
