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And there are no Sony exclusives on that chart, at all.
Sounds like a good recipe for suicide. So no big new software for the next two years for U owners followed by a new console? Jesus.
Iga, save us.
They can have another 40 years of making losses like these with their bank account balance.
"In terms of assets Sony and Nintendo are roughly equal. In terms of equity (assets minus debt/liabilities in laymans) Nintendo's about four times the size of Sony. In terms of employees Sony's just over 20 times the size of Nintendo."
I'd love to see how this plays out in the annals of history and how much blame the industry in general is willing to accept, in this chicken and the egg situation IF it actually happens. Self fufilling prophecy much? But yeah I think it's too early to call death on the system, it may happen but I would be surprised. How many years of Nintendoom do we have? Even in the Wii/DS era the Nintendoom wheel was spinning.
Sony have a 78% chance of going bust in the next two years. Nintendo has a 22% chance. Where's the Sony is doomed wheel? They've made losses for years and had to sell off half it's property to survive.
This.
A return of the dream team.
GG, there is the calming voice I needed to hear. I am taking off so I can't write a full replay but I have some ideals of what Nintendo should do next.
Why does everyone seem to have such a hard-on for Nintendo home consoles anyway? Tradition? I play my 3DS far more than my Wii U, and would love to have all of Nintendo's big games on a single, convenient platform that I can play anywhere.
Iwata should be replaced with a hot asian woman. Like Evelyn Lin.
I'd love to see how this plays out in the annals of history and how much blame the industry in general is willing to accept, in this chicken and the egg situation IF it actually happens. Self fufilling prophecy much? But yeah I think it's too early to call death on the
No you can't blame this on the industry, this is on Nintendo. They screwed up. The other two will strive while Nintendo flounders this gen because of the choices Nintendo made.
I prefer the console over the portable. I've always felt that Nintendo's success in handhelds is what made them slip up in the console space in the first place. Most of what they do on handhelds could easily be done on the console also...not the other way around.
Replace the Japanese president and CEO of a Japanese company with a Chinese porn star? Yup, I can agree with that.
I said hot ASIAN woman. She is asian....and fucking hot. I doubt any man at Nintendo would complain about her being Chinese while she's sitting on his face.
With the old man analogy, the guys at Nintendo, developers and who knows how many execs have been there since the NES days and they have seen the ups and downs of the industry. Going back to what Iwata said a few months ago, I'm not going to dig around for the quote but he said something like: "It's not over from 1 years worth of sales" and something like he knows about the ups and downs of the console game, and it's not unusual. There's is a reset button each gen and sometimes you do good, other times not. But he's not a panic mode guy interested in short term profits. To the developers and staff who've been at the company for the past however many decades - Nintendo is more like a family or institution.
As long as it endures, nothing else really matters. Maybe that's a very Japanese outlook.
I think you have to look back and realise just how radical Wii 1 was. A console designed to be $99? A revolutionary control device? 20x less powerful and not capable of comparable multiformat games (like Wii U is)
The original idea was to try something different because the same console at the same spec and price was doing nothing but delivering ever declining returns. They expected it to fail, but would rather have tried it, than done nothing. If you go back and read the interviews that is.
All this doom around Wii U is what could and probably should have happened with Wii. It was the success of Wii and DS that framed the outlook of 3DS and Wii U and who could blame them for doing that after the ridiculous success and profits they reeled in with the same concept before?
In all honesty though, the reason Nintendo consoles have declined over the years (other than the Wii catching the casual craze) is because Nintendo never quite goes all in. Even when their hardware is powerful, they ALWAYS gimp it in some way that makes the competition look better.
Its been a long time since it felt like Nintendo had the balls to really go toe to toe with the competition in all areas. Of course they use the excuse that they want to do something different, but it would be nice to see them really go all out for a generation instead of always being a little behind.
Nintendo isn't going to change a thing about their strategy. The wiiU will live to see the end of the gen. Nintendo is too stubborn, proud and Japanese to risk losing face. Their biggest problem this gen will be not alienating too many of their fans, the people they will need most if they are to reverse their fortunes in 5 years.
Until I see a new Metroid and something from Retro other than a Snes styled platformer, I consider myself alienated!
Someone break it down for someone tired, travel-worn and weary. Did something actually happen or is this the normal Nintendo debate going on?
Heading to the state capital for...
...something.
Wii U didn't sell hardly at all this holiday.
You can drop those last four words entirely and your statement would still be true. Why is this news now?
Nintendo admitted to investors that their estimates were way off,they dropped them across the board which equals an over $700 million flip in losses. The numbers the wii u has sold is more like Saturn than GC, it is a soon to be dead system. Stock is plummeting, everyone wants iwata gone and he announced he refuses to step down.
Iwata can't be fired?
Ah. I see. Glad they have plenty of loot/rogue games lined up for PS4 then. Times are changin'. I'm starting to get used to it.