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Avinash_Tyagi on 24 September 2009
ph4nt said:
 (hint hint MS and Sony, you should follow this amazing strategy a 5 year old could come up with)

I know seriously, who is the genius who thought up that idea, "yeah lets lose billions on hardware, Durr hurr"



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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nordlead on 24 September 2009
ph4nt said:
Nintendo never sells for a loss (hint hint MS and Sony, you should follow this amazing strategy a 5 year old could come up with). And they have the most powerful software in the business, 3rd party or otherwise, which also make boat loads of money.

Since Nintendo first party games are so successful (Wii Fit 22 million alone, thats about 2 billion, more than the highest grossing movie of all time). I'd say they make more money on software, but they do make loads on hardware too.

yea, but the question was 3rd party game royalties. He didn't include 1st party software anywhere in his question.




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Demotruk on 25 September 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ph4nt said:
 (hint hint MS and Sony, you should follow this amazing strategy a 5 year old could come up with)

I know seriously, who is the genius who thought up that idea, "yeah lets lose billions on hardware, Durr hurr"

The reason they sell their consoles at a loss is so that companies with less financial clout can't compete (in theory). A company like Sega could never sustain that model of business, which is why they had to leave hardware. It worked for the first two playstations, they easily made back their money with software sales. Even when Nintendo was selling their Gamecube at a profit, they still couldn't truly compete with that strategy.



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