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Wyrdness on 07 January 2021
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Wman1996 said:

Classic Nintendo arrogance. There haughtiness is even more pathetic when you realize...

The Nintendo 64 underperformed
The GameCube was their worst-selling home console to date, and apparently barely broke even.
The Wii U tanked and the 3DS sold only about half of the units of the DS and even fell short of the GBA. All this after the titanic double threat of the DS and Wii.

Nintendo would laugh even if their hardware was failing and the same proposition was made. As long as they have billions in the banks and keep their executives rich, that's all that matters to them. I don't think Nintendo will be bought out. I just think they'll eventually stop making hardware in the 2030s or 2040s and move over to PCs and smart devices.

GC still sold the same range as Xbox so if their worst selling at the time matched MS efforts that says a lot especially as the pitch was about hardware to compete with Sony and the Xbox never even got off the ground in doing that leading to them dumping the platform in 4 years, only the top 10 selling platforms in history have managed to sell half of what the DS sold so that's not really a failure of any sorts especially when that half is in the same range as MS' best showing. Fact is Nintendo are in both the portable and home markets that's what MS would be gaining two parallel markets one which Nintendo has had absolute dominance in while Nintendo would gain nothing but new overlords, MS only competed against their two worst home showings not because of anything they did but because of Nintendo's own mistakes yet still the latter simply brushed it off and came back stronger because when on form MS simply can't keep up no matter what hardware they put out that's why MS got laughed out.