Nintendo is d00med, OH NOEZ

[Blackmane]

Originally Posted by Null

at this point its way too early of who will have the majority in the handheld market for this generation. if your already ruling sony out i'd say your way ahead of yourself. right now its up for grabs. either could end up taking majority. odds are for nintendo, but that doenst mean anyone else has no shot.

and the discussion was never about who made more money on each console. it was about the fact that they are trying to make money. This point was not brought up to say nintendo is failing, it was brought up because someone said nintendo's the only one who makes games just for enjoyment. which is wrong, they do it to make money. That said, even if one company makes much more on each console sold, that doesnt mean they're doing better, the other company could be selling way way more and getting more because of it. Nintendo does not have to go bankrupt to sell, they just have to be hit with a deal they really like.

You have to be a realist and understand that even if Sony does incredibly well, they will not take the majority away from Nintendo in one generation. If they did very well and then made another handheld, that one might be able to take the lead. I never said they couldn't do well this generation, I said that they would not take the majority hold Nintendo has right away. It will take time, and one generation is not enough.

Second, you are speaking in a generality and not looking at facts. Xbox sold some more than Nintendo, but Nintendo had a profit margin that was much greater than Microsofts. We all know Microsoft didn't make much money this time around. So, why try to argue that? I understand that Microsoft needed to take a hit in profits in order to break into the market, and thats fine. But stop trying to suggest that they made it up in quantity because it wasn't much higher than Nintendo.

Nintendo is not near ready to sell, so of course, Microsoft could keep throwing bigger offers at them, but they are going to have to make a huge deal to get Nintendo to crumple with the current state of things. Like I have said, its hard to tell much farther then Revolution because we don't know how it is going to fare, but for right now, I think Nintendo is making plenty of money with what they are doing.