| SWORDF1SH said: Estimate for Nintendo in 2017 looks too low. |
Did you read the note below the chart?
It's not just hardware and it;s software... It includes digital content/services!
So MS/SONY looks too high thanks to online play subscription, xbox live/ps now.
Something that Nintendo hasn't so far! They are introducing that with switch, so IHS cannot predict for that when they don't know anything about how this new service of Nintendo will be and how much online play subscription will cost. Also, switch just was released, ihs doesn't have a pattern for estimation, therefore they're playing it safe and predict same revenues as last year, albeit they should have been bold with their estimation, Nintendo made some of the 5b with 800k wii us, 7.2m 3DS sold in 2016... Switch should top that easily in its first year and it has a greater profit margine than wii u ( remember being sold on profit from the beginning unlike wii u, which had losses for the first two years . )
Nintendo makes that 5B with the overwheliming majority coming from physical content. The report cites that sony made 4.4b with ps now excluding online play subscriptions.
So, it's no surprise that Nintendo will finally charges us for online play and will create a service like ps now/xboxlive! it's an anti-consumer move tbut business-wise is smart... Huge increasment of the profit.
