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Nintendo Won't Pull A Sega

Posted by Zonk on from the first-party-all-the-way dept.

AztecL0B0 writes "Nintendo Insider takes a look at the reasons why Nintendo is not leaving the console race anytime soon. From the article: 'To have a successful system, you must not only sell a lot of the system, but make money off it, too. You can sell all the systems you want, but if you don't turn a profit, you'll go down the drain as a company.' This is the second part of a three part series. The first article discusses the background to this round of console fighting."

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  1. Nintendo's greatest enemy... by tfurrows · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nintendo's greatest enemy may be the top-dog attitude they've touted for years. Top sales numbers today mean jack for tomorrow, especially when you're up against companies like MS and PSP who are trying their darndest to not only compete for market share, but actually _innovate_ an drive new technologies. Compare the PSP to the DS and you get an excellent idea of which company is driving new technology. Nintendo proclaims that they won't go the way of Sega... I wonder if Sega ever proclaimed that they wouldn't go the way of Atari.

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  2. This seems quite possible. by Cecil+B+ReDemented · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one wants to see this happen,but as far as I can tell,thats only one of two things keeping them alive,that and handhelds.The modern "thing" these days seems to be "retro love". Everyone keeps obsesing over the past,but as soon as this fad wares out,so will nintendo.Now as far as there handhelds... It's qiute obvious that the only thing that really pulled them through this last year was the handheld market.Now the PSP has pretty much eliminated that market as well.Considering they actually have to start outsourcing to meet the demand over there new handheld,I think it's fair to say sony just nabbed that market. Nintendo is starting to turn into a cute,but annoying company to me,they don't seem to care about bringing anything new,only repackaging the same things in pointless ways (gameboy DS for instance). As such,unless nintendo finally steps up to the plate,it unfortunatly looks like they're going to be knocked out of the ballgame. If they don't sell systems,they can't make ANY money,and there done for.

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