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cbarroso09 on 07 September 2013
bananaking21 said:
MohammadBadir said:
"says Atari founder"
stopped caring there.


thats why you should care. this guy made the company that coined the term "irrelevance" in the gaming industry


think about it again, if they did knew about what made them irrevelant in the industry why didn't they do something about that? 

of course, because they never knew what hit them. 



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bananaking21 on 07 September 2013
cbarroso09 said:
bananaking21 said:
MohammadBadir said:
"says Atari founder"
stopped caring there.


thats why you should care. this guy made the company that coined the term "irrelevance" in the gaming industry


think about it again, if they did knew about what made them irrevelant in the industry why didn't they do something about that? 

of course, because they never knew what hit them. 

its called learning from their mistakes. sometimes you need to do a mistake, experience it to actually learn something. now im not saying nintndo is facing the path of irrelevance. but its not like the guy is just talking out of his ass



dahuman on 07 September 2013

So bitter and jelly



Proxy-Pie on 07 September 2013
dahuman said:
So bitter and jelly


lol just like 30 years ago when they tried to illigally hack the NES!



snyps on 07 September 2013
Talal said:
snyps said:
bananaking21 said:
snyps said:
Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan.


nokia certainly werent a "flash in the pan". i always disliked the company and its phones and refused to ever consider buying one for as long as i can remember but even i cant say they were a flash in the pan



My gut is telling me Nokia was only no. 1 as a phone maker for 5 years. That's short.


"Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012."

Also Nintendo hasn't been number 1 for 30 years in home consoles and he's talking about the Wii U so handhelds are irrelevant.



from the article:"I don't think handheld game-only devices make sense anymore," he told the BBC. "Not when you have an iPod or an Android microtablet"

he's talking about both.



Nokia had it's biggest succes in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#2000_to_present
that's when i first recognized them. If you can find when they were first no.1 in profits I would love to know. I cant find it. So i'm going with 2003 the Nokia 3310

They lost the no. 1 in profits position to apple in 2009
http://gigaom.com/2009/11/10/apple-shoots-past-nokia-as-worlds-most-profitable-handset-vendor/


thats six years by my calculations. But lmk if you find a src saying when they became no. 1 in profits.



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richardhutnik on 07 September 2013
MohammadBadir said:
richardhutnik said:
MohammadBadir said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37tPc08v90

Atari tried to hack Nintendo at some point XD

Shift in the way videogames worked, and how money was made did in Atari and a lot.  Going from 8bit to 16bit also killed off a bunch of former videogame makers.  Rare exception was the likes of Activision actually.  The home computer got washed out by the PC, and it went on.  Now PCs are getting washed out by portable devices.


what

PC market growth has stimied.  The growth has been in smart devices, not PCs.  There is a shift afoot currently in regards to computing.

There ia cycle of unexpected disruption that goes on regarding videogames.  WAY back in the day, there were forecasts that dedicated game machines would vanish completely and be replaced by computer gaming.  



richardhutnik on 07 September 2013
MohammadBadir said:
dahuman said:
So bitter and jelly


lol just like 30 years ago when they tried to illigally hack the NES!

Time-Warner was named in the lawsuit, not Bushnell. Bushnell was out of the picture then.



POE on 07 September 2013

Atari is irrelevant



richardhutnik on 07 September 2013
cbarroso09 said:
bananaking21 said:
MohammadBadir said:
"says Atari founder"
stopped caring there.


thats why you should care. this guy made the company that coined the term "irrelevance" in the gaming industry


think about it again, if they did knew about what made them irrevelant in the industry why didn't they do something about that? 

of course, because they never knew what hit them. 

He sold out to Warner Communications, who proceeded to run Atari into the ground through various issues.  He was not in a place to act to stop it, and was banned from coming out with another company.  But the thing is, with the videogame industry, no one knows what hits them until it is too late.



Talal on 07 September 2013
snyps said:
Talal said:

"Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012."

Also Nintendo hasn't been number 1 for 30 years in home consoles and he's talking about the Wii U so handhelds are irrelevant.



from the article:"I don't think handheld game-only devices make sense anymore," he told the BBC. "Not when you have an iPod or an Android microtablet"

he's talking about both.



Nokia had it's biggest succes in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#2000_to_present
that's when i first recognized them. If you can find when they were first no.1 in profits I would love to know. I cant find it. So i'm going with 2003 the Nokia 3310

They lost the no. 1 in profits position to apple in 2009
http://gigaom.com/2009/11/10/apple-shoots-past-nokia-as-worlds-most-profitable-handset-vendor/


thats six years by my calculations. But lmk if you find a src saying when they became no. 1 in profits.


Thought you were talking about units sold not profit. Most lists rank in terms of marketshare.