Gearbox said:
Chrizum said:
Million said:
fkusumot said:
Million said:
If Nintendo flop the next 2 generations it could effectivley kill them wheras Sony & MS's shareholders wouldn't be happy about it but they could live with it. Short term Nintendo is pretty well off however in the long term their future is uncertain . |
1. A lot of people thought that Nintendo did flop with their consoles the last two generations.
2. It didn't effectively kill them.
3. Your analysis seems short-sighted.
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What alot of people believe and what effectivley happened are too entirley different things , Nintendo didn't flop with the GC and they didn't flop with the N64 they just performed to a lesser standard than their competitors , your forgetting about the highly succesfull GC & GBA which had pretty much 80-95% marketshare for their entire life spans.
To be honest I don't care what you think of the quality of my analysis , I think it was pretty accurate. Wether you like it or not Sony and Microsoft have more capacity to survive periods of loss in their respective gaming divisions Sony has HD TV's , MP3 Players , Entertainment (movies,music etc) , Laptops and the list goes on . Microsoft is also very diversified in it's markets ( I don't think they are as much as Sony but the markets they participate in are far more lucrative).
Nintendo however only have the games market to relly on , if Nintnedo didn't profit for two generations ( or as I said flopped) then how would it not severley damage or even kill them off completley ? I'd appreciate a superior analysis from you to demonstrate your point.
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You are correct. But the thing is, Nintendo has yet to have a year where they didn't profit. And if the PlayStation division would be unable to make any profit the next 2 generations, you can bet your ass that Sony decides to leave the gaming industry.
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The thing is, is that during the time of the two generation flops, they had almost the ENTIRE handheld market. No company dared enter it then. Now however SONY has a nice stake, thats growing, in the handheld market. This helps SONY in two ways, first it gives them a fall back if their consoles fail, and if Nintendo's next Gen consoles fail, their handheld market will not be anywhere near the size of what it used to be. Nintendo is shrinking, and if they don't win this Gen, then they will SLOWLY fade away. None of the three companies will just give up.
However, Microsoft has already said they will not continue the Xbox, so unless they make something new they've basically said they give up.
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