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ps4tw on 01 February 2017
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zorg1000 said:
ps4tw said:

Actually, if you look at the market reaction to the Switch announcement, most investors believe it is more likely to be a Wii U than a Wii. The stock market doesn't work on the simple idea that "only time will tell". Looking at business strategy, plans and previous performance should give you an indication of what the future holds...

And I'm telling you that that market is declining as shown by the low sales of the Wii U and 3DS, and as proven by the quarterly losses Nintendo posted, that market clearly isn't enough to be sustainable. The fact you can't grasp the bigger picture other than "THEY SOLD MILLIONS" is embarrassing. 

You can't change financial choices suddenly into "being profitable" - they are not the same, as being profitable is the result of financial choices. 

You also can't combine the stats of two different markets together just because they are the markets a company deals in. Are you going to combine the Windows OS market and Xbox market together whenever you talk about Microsoft? No, of course not. 

It's yet to be seen if Switch will replace the 3DS, whereas it has been confirmed the Switch will replace the Wii U. You talk about waiting until "time will tell", but want to jump to the presumption that the Switch will replace the 3DS....So are you allowed to make predictions or not?

Ya because investors reactions are proof of how successful a product will be, your arguments are getting more and more rediculous.

Yes, Wii U & 3DS are a decline from previous devices and they posted a couple years of losses, however that means nothing going forward. PS3 being a decline from PS2 and Sony losing billions from it was proof that PS4 was going to do poorly, right?

The main goal of business is to be profitable so yes good business decisions and being profitable go hand in hand.

So it makes more sense to exclude 80% of their gaming business when talking about their place in the gaming market? ok buddy, keep telling yourself that.

Its pretty clear what they are doing. In 2014 they spoke about how supporting two seperate hardware lines is getting too difficult and going forward they plan to create a unified platform. They also merged the console & handheld divisions for both hardware & software. 2.5 years later they announced a device with the functionality of a handheld & a console. The only reason they are not positioning it as a 3DS successor right now is because 3DS is still selling and has a decent 2017 lineup.

Its just like "DS is a 3rd pillar and not a replacement to GBA", that was true for about 1.5 years but as GBA sales and software slowed down and DS sales and software increased all of a sudden DS was a successor to GBA.

Are you serious? You're saying we should ignore the people who have millions, if not billions, tied up in shares because "that's ridiculous"?? Clearly you have no idea how the stock market works, and who buys shares as it is literally their job to predict how a company or product will fare in the future. So good going, you got that completely wrong. 

Honestly, I'll just stop there with you because we can't talk about a company's financial performance if you are so unaware of economics you literally think the opposite to how the market operates, and are casually swapping terms such as "financial decisions" with "being profitable" and "good business decisions" without realising they do not at all mean the same thing (Hint: look up what the phrases actually mean).