draggoon01
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http://www.gamespot.com/gba/news/news_6076336.html
and people still get criticized for predicting a slow demise of nintendo, that we don't know and are armchair ceo's while nintendo really knows what they're doing, or that they make more off each console sold than others, or that gba will carry them no matter what.
incidentally, next week sony will give more info on their portable psx. if it succeeds even modestly, nintendo will not be able to continue their ways...
edit:
in regards to psp, for everyone comparing it to past handhelds that failed, i think it equally important to consider what sony did with consoles and how untouchable nintendo used to be. imo, i see no reason why the same thing won't happen again, especially since nintendo is using up all of its classic snes games as remakes for gba titles.
in regards to the announcement of quadrupling sale:,
August Hardware sales according to NPD:
PS2: 291,000 [-6% over July sales]
Xbox: 146,000 [+6%]
GCN: 100,000 [-21%]
GBA: 363,000 [-24%]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031002/tc_nm/tech_nintendo_gamecube_dc_1
1) 15k/week is low (and they for some reason averaged in august for comparison?). meaning either nintendo was just selling poorly or people were waiting for this price cut.
2) although sales may have quadrupled, they sold the console for $50 less (negating the price of bundled game).
3) they've been heavily, heavily advertising the price cut. it's one thing to get the word out, but even people who watch tv to a minimal degree noticed that same commercial being played again and again. which makes me wonder if any increase in sales will be worth it after the advertising costs and price drop. are sales of games gong to make up for all that? were there people who wanted to buy multiple games for the console but were waiting all this time for the console price drop??
4) the most interesting thing to wait for is if this is sustained. if msft and sony keep to their prices and nintendo's sales go back to previous trends, then nintendo will be out of cards to play. there's still almost 2 more years left in this generation of consoles. what are they going to do? price cut to $79? pack in another game or zelda? pack in gba? release gamecube 2 ahead of msft or sony?
and people still get criticized for predicting a slow demise of nintendo, that we don't know and are armchair ceo's while nintendo really knows what they're doing, or that they make more off each console sold than others, or that gba will carry them no matter what.
incidentally, next week sony will give more info on their portable psx. if it succeeds even modestly, nintendo will not be able to continue their ways...
edit:
in regards to psp, for everyone comparing it to past handhelds that failed, i think it equally important to consider what sony did with consoles and how untouchable nintendo used to be. imo, i see no reason why the same thing won't happen again, especially since nintendo is using up all of its classic snes games as remakes for gba titles.
in regards to the announcement of quadrupling sale:,
August Hardware sales according to NPD:
PS2: 291,000 [-6% over July sales]
Xbox: 146,000 [+6%]
GCN: 100,000 [-21%]
GBA: 363,000 [-24%]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031002/tc_nm/tech_nintendo_gamecube_dc_1
1) 15k/week is low (and they for some reason averaged in august for comparison?). meaning either nintendo was just selling poorly or people were waiting for this price cut.
2) although sales may have quadrupled, they sold the console for $50 less (negating the price of bundled game).
3) they've been heavily, heavily advertising the price cut. it's one thing to get the word out, but even people who watch tv to a minimal degree noticed that same commercial being played again and again. which makes me wonder if any increase in sales will be worth it after the advertising costs and price drop. are sales of games gong to make up for all that? were there people who wanted to buy multiple games for the console but were waiting all this time for the console price drop??
4) the most interesting thing to wait for is if this is sustained. if msft and sony keep to their prices and nintendo's sales go back to previous trends, then nintendo will be out of cards to play. there's still almost 2 more years left in this generation of consoles. what are they going to do? price cut to $79? pack in another game or zelda? pack in gba? release gamecube 2 ahead of msft or sony?
