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Can Nintendo turn the Wii U around like Sony did with PS3?

Of course. Nintendo will pull off a miracle. 118 25.21%
 
lol lol lol lol lol no. 259 55.34%
 
Yo Mama 90 19.23%
 
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Well PS3 still had third party support. Also it was the price that killed them not that people did not want it.

Plus they gave a shitload of them with TV promotions well here at least 100,000 in such a small country population wise. So they burned cash to get it out there.

It wa salso ironically marketed as the worlds cheapest bluray player at the time here that could also play games. Everytime people wnated to buy a BluRay player sales staff pushed the PS3 on them.



 

 

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Nintendo has the console currently making profit, so that's going right for them at least lol



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By burning so much money.



JWeinCom said:
Ruler said:
JWeinCom said:

Not since 1984.  In the US at least.   You can still sell stock as a way of loss selling, but that's never going to offset your actually losses.  Any way you try to spin it losing money over an extended period of time is a bad thing.  It's not like loss selling is helping Sony anyway as a quick look at their debt will tell you.  Of course bringing up selling losses is a way for you to complicate things.  Don't bring up a simplistic example, then make it more complicated later.  It's a dishonest bit of rhetorical trickery.

no you dont understand they can sell their devisions that make loses

Uhhh they can, but you're not going to make a profit off of those sales.  Whose going to buy a division that's bleeding money unless they're going to get a great deal?

I'm really not sure what you're trying to say.  But, I'll just respond with this.  Companies can do a lot of things.  None of those things are going to change the fact that making money is objectively better than losing money.  

for who? share holders and bloomberg propaganda channel of them? You should ask why is that these folks always wanting profits in the first place? 

The reality is the bigger you are so better it is. People bought vaio devision from sony which made tons of loses. And it was some obscure company/foundation like Japan Industrial Partners so how you explain that? Sony got money and dont have to make loses anymore, now the only thing that makes loses is the smarthphone devision everything else made and makes profits. Either way they sell it or they keep it while the Playstation devision will make up for it dueto the success of the ps4.

Nintendo cant allow itself to fuck up, what can they sell? What do they own? They only have a gaming devision which is also smaller than sonys. 



Mainly the fact that Sony still had third parties on board but they still took a financial hit.



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The disadvantages ps3 had are not the same as the ones Wii U have. So you can't actually compare the two to see where Wii U can pick up sales. Fact of the matter is most of Wii sales went to one time only buyers, and what we are seeing is Wii U returning to normal Nintendo home console sales levels. After 2 full years on the market PS3 was so far ahead in sales compared to Wii U now, there is just no comparison.



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Stoneysilence said:
small44 said:
3rd party


This.  Nintendo lost 3rd party while PS3 didn't.

I agree on this regards, but it is not only that Nintendo lost 3rd party support, it is also true that 3rd party could not loose Sony, if they abandoned Sony console Microsoft would have them under their control and they simple could not afford it, so they kept trying even if the sales were not great, and finally it worked with the help of price adjustments from Sony and better development tools support.



RolStoppable said:
By burning money.

Despite the huge discrepancy in lifetime sales of hardware and software, the Wii U will have generated more profits for Nintendo than the PS3 for Sony.


We don't know that as Nintendo relies heavily on the 3DS for profits. Not to mention that, before the last quarter, they had several quarters of losses.



flagstaad said:
Stoneysilence said:
small44 said:
3rd party


This.  Nintendo lost 3rd party while PS3 didn't.

I agree on this regards, but it is not only that Nintendo lost 3rd party support, it is also true that 3rd party could not loose Sony, if they abandoned Sony console Microsoft would have them under their control and they simple could not afford it, so they kept trying even if the sales were not great, and finally it worked with the help of price adjustments from Sony and better development tools support.


Sony lost alot of exclusives though...



RolStoppable said:
Lawlight said:
RolStoppable said:
By burning money.

Despite the huge discrepancy in lifetime sales of hardware and software, the Wii U will have generated more profits for Nintendo than the PS3 for Sony.

We don't know that as Nintendo relies heavily on the 3DS for profits. Not to mention that, before the last quarter, they had several quarters of losses.

It's not hard to extrapolate from here on out. What I said will be correct.

Please extrapolate. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that the WiiU is generating profit for Nintendo.