Nintendo Profits Drop As Gamecube Loses Ground

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @12:42AM from the mario's-cement-factory-repossessed dept.

Thanks to several readers for pointing to a Bloomberg Japan report reporting a likely fall in Nintendo's profits, as they lose market share to the Xbox and sell less Gamecubes compared to this time last year. They're still on course for a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars, mind you, but the article does say that "some investors criticized Nintendo for failing to announce any significant plans to boost its game business.. at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo." Investors also seems worried about increased competition for the Gameboy Advance, in the form of Sony's PSP handheld.

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Re:They should just do Software by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-21 02:43 · Score: 1, Informative

"The N64 was the first, and for a while, the only console that was built with 3d in mind"
The original Playstation certainly had 3d processing power. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by being built with 3d in mind, because that's pretty ambiguous. Look at Battle Arena Toshinden. The Playstation was "built with 3d in mind." - whatever that means. As you can see if you compare the PSX to the N64, they both have a chip devoted to graphics processing, so if you were thinking that the N64's GPU was a first, you were mistaken. Don't be such a fanboy and realize that it is rude to begin a post with the statement "You are wrong."