When before Nintendo dies?

[slycat]

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Its coming soon. ..and i don't care if gba is doing decent.

 

[samgau]

That was to be expected... sony is seriously kicking Nintendo's butt.... its funny cause I have a nintendo64.... collecting dust from unuse

 

[Rogue]

I don't think Nintendo will ever "die."

I think well before that ever happens, Microsoft and Nintendo will ally in the market against Sony. Nintendo is actually good for Microsoft and Microsoft is good for Nintendo. They will push eachother in the market to improve. I think we will see an alliance between them during or after this next console generation.

 

[MrChad]

Um, they're still making a profit, and about half a billion dollars worth too.

Link

I think Nintendo will still be here for the next round.

 

[Ikonomi]

Nintendo ain't gonna die. The GBA sells ridiculous amounts of systems and games.

 

[slycat]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Nintendo ain't gonna die. The GBA sells ridiculous amounts of systems and games.

doesn't matter...overall trend for last 2 yrs has been down...not meeting expectations, decreased everything...

thats how it initially starts.

 

[Dedpuhl]

I remember the good ole' days when the NES was kicking the crap out of Genesis games. Then the SNES came along and handed Sega their arses.

....then the sleeping giant (PS) came along.


LONG LIVE NINTENDO!!

 

[MrChad]

Nintendo may be struggling in Japan, but it's doing quite well in the U.S. Text

The figures showed Nintendo was the only console-maker to see growth in 2003. Nintendo's GameCube rallied after the company cut the consoles price to $99 in the fourth quarter, and were up 39 percent for calendar year 2003. By comparison, sales of Sony's PlayStation 2 fell 26 percent, while Microsoft's Xbox sales were 2 percent lower in 2003 than 2002.

 

[Dragnov]

Uhhh.. its still making profit. It still has a huge amount of capital behind it.

Unlike Sony and Microsoft, they are solely in the video game market. So when their video games and consoles don't sell well, their profits shrink. It's not like it can be made up somewhere else. You base everything off of one console generation? Now thats dumb.

At most Nintendo will downsize and specialize. That being in several years at earliest.

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Nintendo may be struggling in Japan, but it's doing quite well in the U.S. Text

The figures showed Nintendo was the only console-maker to see growth in 2003. Nintendo's GameCube rallied after the company cut the consoles price to $99 in the fourth quarter, and were up 39 percent for calendar year 2003. By comparison, sales of Sony's PlayStation 2 fell 26 percent, while Microsoft's Xbox sales were 2 percent lower in 2003 than 2002.

Gross sales are usually followed immediately by EBIT, which is really a much better indicator...

ie gross sales might be 1 billion... but if your EBIT is -500000, that 1 billion doesn't mean very much..

 

[RagingBITCH]

People that don't know what they're talking about shouldn't open their mouths.

 

[HOWITIS]

Originally posted by: Rogue
I don't think Nintendo will ever "die."

I think well before that ever happens, Microsoft and Nintendo will ally in the market against Sony. Nintendo is actually good for Microsoft and Microsoft is good for Nintendo. They will push eachother in the market to improve. I think we will see an alliance between them during or after this next console generation.

no japanese game company will be "allied" with an american one.

 

[Dacalo]

Nintendo going down?

Unpossible!

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
I remember the good ole' days when the NES was kicking the crap out of Genesis games. Then the SNES came along and handed Sega their arses.

....then the sleeping giant (PS) came along.


LONG LIVE NINTENDO!!

absolutely man.. nintendo pioneered a lot of the video game industry, and has it's ever so famous games like super mario bros and mariokart.. those are uber classics.. heh

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Why do so many people insist on spouting "Nintendo is going to die"? The Mac will be dead before Nintendo is, and they've been saying the Mac is dead for the last decade.

 

[bleeb]

Face it people... Nintendo makes the TOP Games.... a majority of the PS and ALL of the XBOX games BLOW. NINTENDO RULES DAWG!!!

 

[aircooled]

Two words.

Donkey Kong!

 

[BDawg]

domestic sales at home.

As opposed to domestic sales somewhere else?