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DM235 on 10 January 2015

I don't understand why people don't agree with the OP, but that is where the entire industry is headed.

Phones / tablets get more popular and more powerful every year. Streaming is getting better and better as internet speeds improve. My guess is that within 10 years, you will no longer be buying a console. You will either be buying games on your phone, or running an app that streams the games from some server in the cloud.

My proof of this? First, mobile gaming is growing at a crazy pace, and most if not all publishers already have mobile games. Publishers follow the money. If there is more money to be made on phones / tablets, that is where they will invest their time / money.

Second, Activision released Skylanders Trap Team for tablets (iOS / Android) this year. It is the same casual game as on consoles (with graphics comparable to PS3 / 360 on higher end tablets). It can be played with an included controller, or with touch screen controls. You can AirPlay to your TV when at home, or play on your tablet when you are out. I am sure this is not going to be the last console game to get this treatment...



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DJEVOLVE on 10 January 2015

Nintendo will be around for a long time to come. Not sure why all the Doom threads. Nintendo just needs to refocus, that's it.



hsrob on 10 January 2015
HollyGamer said:
hsrob said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Chazore said:
Sounds like Sony would be closer to that than Nintendo tbh.

Sony closer to being obsolete as a hardware manufacturer than Nintendo? Have you not seen PS4 sales?

Seeing as we were beating the revenue-is-not-profit drum not long ago it shouldn't be too hard to realise that sales also don't equal profits.  Even if Sony is now profiting on each unit of PS4 hardware sold they are still likely only part of the way through paying off the PS4 R+D costs.  I think it is highly unlikely that the PS4 venture as a whole has yet turned profit.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/business/global/sonys-bread-and-butter-its-not-electronics.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1

I'm not claiming this article represents any kind of 'truth' but it's pretty easy to find a host of similar articles in well respected publications. I know that the authors of these articles don't determine Sony's fate, but the shareholders that do read these articles and with losses in 9 of the last 10 years Sony's shareholders have reason to be displeased.

It's about market share and brand recognize in industry, even if SONY bankrupt they can still sale PS brand to other company u

With regards the comment stating that Sony is closer to hardware obsolescence, selling the PlayStation brand would accelerate that end point, not postpone it. 

 

Equally Nintendo's software IP still have significant value but I don't think we would want to see those sold off either.



Skullwaker on 10 January 2015
DJEVOLVE said:
Nintendo will be around for a long time to come. Not sure why all the Doom threads. Nintendo just needs to refocus, that's it.

Accurate. 



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Kerotan on 10 January 2015

Fully agree with opening poster. It's scary the money ninty would make if they went 3rd party on all platforms. They have a number of games selling like mini Minecraft's



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alternine on 10 January 2015
Skullwaker said:
As someone who is new here, are these threads common? Like there weren't any Nintendoom threads for a while, and now it seems like there's been a baby boom of them. what up wit dis


Blame Nintendo for their bad decision making.



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tak13 on 10 January 2015
alternine said:
Skullwaker said:
As someone who is new here, are these threads common? Like there weren't any Nintendoom threads for a while, and now it seems like there's been a baby boom of them. what up wit dis


Blame Nintendo for their bad decision making.


Ugh...Keep walking!



alternine on 10 January 2015
tak13 said:
alternine said:
Skullwaker said:
As someone who is new here, are these threads common? Like there weren't any Nintendoom threads for a while, and now it seems like there's been a baby boom of them. what up wit dis


Blame Nintendo for their bad decision making.


Ugh...Keep walking!

What?



"Say what you want about Americans but we understand Capitalism.You buy yourself a product and you Get What You Pay For."  

- Max Payne 3

tak13 on 10 January 2015
Kerotan said:
Fully agree with opening poster. It's scary the money ninty would make if they went 3rd party on all platforms. They have a number of games selling like mini Minecraft's


No kerotan!They make more money on hardware than on software(There is a great analysis on neogaf about this but even Iwata has used this argument along with the other one that nintendo software won't  be good on non nintendo hardware,which are the reason that nintendo will never go third party)!You do realize how big advantage is to sell your own software on your own hardware,you don't have to share the money!For instance nintendo would need to sell 760m apps at 5$ on app store to match the money it gets from hardware and the 30% of the money would be taken from apple!

One other time to see a person  suggesting nintendo to go third party without doing a research to see if it should or not,I will leave vgc!I'm really annoyed by this!

This(^) isn't for you kerotan at least you don't seem to have bad intention,others  by contrast  may have!



megafenix on 10 January 2015
alternine said:
Skullwaker said:
As someone who is new here, are these threads common? Like there weren't any Nintendoom threads for a while, and now it seems like there's been a baby boom of them. what up wit dis


Blame Nintendo for their bad decision making.


The gamepad wasnt probably the best decsion, but nintendo has also made good choices in the past,  perhaps you have not the article yet but nintendo has saved up lots of money in the bank ensuring them to stay on the console competition for some decades

http://www.gamesradar.com/nintendo-doomed-not-likely-just-take-look-how-much-money-its-got-bank/

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Is Nintendo doomed? Not likely. Just take a look at how much money it's got in the bank

Matt Cundy on February 13, 2012
 
 

Fiscal projections. Capital budgeting. Shareholder investment. Yadda yadda yadda. Unless you like accounts and annual reports and stock markets and banks and all that, the world of corporate finance is really boring. But not today. Check this out for a completely not boring financial fact about Nintendo: Nintendo has £6.7 ($10.5) billion in the bank and, even if making big losses every year, that considerable nest egg would keep the company going until 2052. That's, like, 40 years away.

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