PS4Neo + XBScorpio ... Is NX Screwed?

[DonFerrari]

Louie said:

JRPGfan said:

Nintendo has a huge amount of cash just laying around.

If they wanted to do battle with Playstation & Xbox, they could.

They could look the best of what playstation&xbox has that they dont, and impliment it in their systems and aim for equal power, and work on getting 3rd party on board. I think they could win a battle like that. I dont think they need a gimmick, just equal features to the others, and adaquate hardware. Their games will do the rest.

Man, no they couldn't. :p  Nintendo does not have the financial resources to outcompete Sony and Microsoft, because those two are willing (and in the case of Microsoft financially capable) of subsidizing their console businesses with billions of dollars if they choose to do so. I'm not saying Sony and Microsoft are "better" companies, just bigger ones. 

Sure, Nintendo has quite some cash. But they can't lose money for three consecutive years and they don't have the overall resources to compete directly with Sony and Microsoft. For instance, they don't have the in-house knowledge and manpower to compete with them when it comes to online infrastructure and feature parity of their consoles. But that's just one example. Nintendo's profits have plummeted bady over the last 5 years and they had to scale back their business already (they layed off staff in Europe , scaled back their presence at events like e3 and generally had a very "safe" software output for the last few years).

MS started head to head with Sony this gen and have tons more money than bankrupt Sony yet can only sale 1/2 of the competitor... no company throws money around for the sake of it.