Hardware "Can Nintendo be saved ?"

[pachura]

http://www.neowin.ne...ntendo-be-saved

A popular Japanese-based game console company is facing new competitors as well as old adversaries in the game industry. It releases a new console product with with some revolutionary features. But despite the superiority of the product, the general public decides to move to other platforms, even when the company cuts the price of the console drastically.

This is not the story of Nintendo and the 3DS console. This is the story of Sega and the Dreamcast. As most of you know, the Dreamcast finally shut down production in early 2001 after declining sales, the rise of Sony's Playstation 2 console and the promise of another advanced game console, Microsoft's first Xbox, that would be released later in 2001.

This week, Nintendo announced that it had lost nearly $1 billion in the first half of its fiscal year and could end up with its first annual loss in at least 30 years, before the 122 year old company released its first NES game console. The news shocked the game industry as a whole. While Microsoft and Sony have had years when their games division had lost money for their parent companies, that was never the case for Nintendo.

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[BORTZ]

Nintendo is far from drowning.

The Dreamcast was not the failure of SEGA, the Saturn was the blunder that SEGA couldnt recover from, no matter how successful the Dreamcast was, they already had one foot in the grave when they announced the Saturn at E3 and then saying it would appear on the shelves in a month.

 

[alex_0706]

nintendo has 3 comanys over the world for so far i know:
nintendo japan
nintendo us
and nintendo europe so wich ine should fall of

 

[Youkai]

lol yeah Nintendo doesn't really need to be saved XD

at least not yet.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Nintendo isn't going anywhere. People exaggerate the situation far too much. If they began having losses year after year (which they haven't yet), then that would be a problem.

 

[Hadrian]

Shit article, here is a quote from one that actually does research.

It's not just internet fanboys that start predicting instant death for Nintendo the second anything goes wrong for them, analysts and investors are if anything even more prone to overreacting. Yesterday business websites were predicting a half year loss of ¥100 billion (£820 million) for Nintendo, today the actual figure is 'only' ¥70 billion (£579 million).

That's still bad obviously, but the majority of it wasn't anything to do with sales but instead Nintendo's vast foreign currency and investment reserves, which thanks to the continuing strong yen had their value slashed once again.

The fact that Nintendo keeps such a large war chest, and seems adamant not to spend it on expansion or acquisitions, is one of the main reason many investors have been upset with them lately.
The weak 3DS launch didn't help either, but the price cut seems to have done the trick and in the last half a year 3.07 million 3DS were sold, as well as 2.58 million DS, and 3.35 million Wii.
A total of 8.13 million 3DS games were sold, with The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D the first to break the 1 million barrier. DS game sales stood at 28.99 million and Wii at 36.45 million.
In terms of hardware that gives the 3DS a new lifetime total of 6.68 million, with the DS (recently confirmed as the best-selling console ever in America) on 149 million and the Wii at 89.36 million.

The figure for the 3DS is actually higher than the DS at the same time in its lifespan, although its software sales continue to be disappointing. Slow game sales and the hardware price cut are the main reasons why Nintendo is now predicting a full year loss of ¥20 billion (£165 million).
So, difficult times still for gaming's oldest publisher, but not necessarily the disaster that some have tried to paint it as…

http://www.metro.co....ess-than-feared

Nintendo aren't in need of saving, they're in a transitional phase at the moment and spending more on developing hardware and software. I'm not sure how well the Wii U will do considering we don't even know what the final hardware will do or when Sony & Microsoft are going to release their consoles (my guess is 2014 at the earliest and even then they don't even need to) but more 3rd party publishers are on board than the Wii was for its launch. I'm not so optimistic about the Wii U than the 3DS but I'll be stupid to count Nintendo out.

 

[_Chaz_]

Nintendo... Failing....

Two words that I don't see being next to each other for quite some time.

 

[Velotix]

Nintendo Failing? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I'd better go tell Emperor Zul that Nintendo is clearly failing and going to die. He won't be pleased.

 

[PolloDiablo]

"Can Nintendo be saved?"

of what?

 

[Necron]

Mmm, what? With the money the earned with the DS and Wii I'm sure the company could live many more years. The article is nonsense.

 

[KingVamp]

Yes,let's take every word,action and event that Nintendo does out of context and/or over exaggerate them to make them look so bad that they look like
a dieing company while annoying all other companies issues.

Give them a break already.


6.68 million 3ds units sold in 5-6 months selling at a faster rate than the ds and Nintendo still believe that under expectations.

Just imagine holidays with big hitters.

 

[weiff]

Am I the only one who remembers the articles that said "XBox could kill Microsoft" or something along those lines? These malarkey articles come every time there is a new console or the numbers shift just barely lower than they were the year before... no one seems to note that the economy worldwide is still low and that frivolities are the first to suffer in these instances. Everyone needs to quit "ambulance chasing" and get on with their lives. The three titans will be around for several more decades till one of them folds shop or pulls a real bonehead move (XBox portable FTW!).

 

[gameandmatch]

*sigh* Nintendo + Failing = DNE.

 

[KingVamp]

So, basically this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zbtt69wyGY

 

[Etheboss]

Well, it is certainly not gonna go down like SEGA...(remember?), Sega mostly failed with the lack of a good sales engine..to my opinion that caused the downfall for SEGA as gameconsole developer/maker..

And as more people have stated, the big N has a reserve and is still in a investment and development stage..

 

[DeathStrudel]

Every week there is some new reason why Nintendo is "failing," and it's always a bunch of bullshit come up by somebody that obviously has no idea how business works.

 

[gibberish]

So, basically this?
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=8Zbtt69wyGY

This is hilarious. He has no idea what he's babbling about.

 

[Ergo]

How many times is this same, tired, meme (it's pretty much become that), going to be repeated before it actually comes true? 2020? 2050? 2100?? Eventually, though, the 'experts' will be right! It may take an asteroid impact in Kyoto to make it true, but it'll happen! Just you watch! Any day now!

 

[xxNathanxx]

So, basically this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zbtt69wyGY

He has a cap with a round sticker on it. I've been listening for 3 minutes and pretty much all he's said is "shut the fuck up". What a douche, I hate him already.

EDIT: argh, why does the forum automatically turn a YouTube link into an embedded vid?

 

[chyyran]

No, Nintendo can't be saved because it doesn't need saving in the first place.

Just watch, when the WiiU comes out, Ninty will be as strong as ever.