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I stumbled upon another article about Midnight Club Racing for the PSP here's a quote
"The few puzzle games on the PSP are almost an afterthought; it's as if someone at Sony suddenly remembered how many Gameboy Tetris sold."
I thought this would be followed by "jk lol" but it was not. C'mon, for one thing Sony doesn't make all the PSP games ya jackass, and for two, Lumines is not even remotely close to being an afterthought oh lookie there it's the number one rated on gamerankings.com.
Are poorly conceived jokes at best. These people demonstrate a lack of basic understanding in the games industry. What the often fail to mention is how profit pans out, as far as profit goes, Nintendo won this generation big time.
This article which summarily claims that Nintendo is dying, is absolutely terrible. The writer does not understand video games and he doesn't understand Nintendo's current state.
A lot of what he says is based on common misconceptions that a lot of you probably have.
Misconception 1.
Power wins portable wars.
A lot of people say the PSP can't lose because WOW look at those graphics, but as someone stated earlier, look at the Sega Gamegear among others, they had better screens and graphics than Nintendo's GBC and GB, and look at them now. Yes, sitting in pawn shops throughout the nation. I don't know enough about demographics and industry trends to say firmly that the PSP will follow a similar fate, but to say that Nintendo will is completely unfounded and silly, 5 million DSs have been shipped already compared to 3 million PSPs.
www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/28/ds_psp_sales
Now, an ignorant person would look at this as irrefutable fact that Nintendo's up in the game, but I point out that the PSP shipped later and was therefore at a disadvantage.
Misconception 2.
Sales figures are everything. Let's just say that it was the other way around, with PSP sales at 5 million and DS sales at 3 million, Nintendo would still not be anywhere close to dying.
Nintendo did not sell more gamecubes than sony did ps2s, heck they may have not even sold more than MS did, to them, it only sort of matters. Yes better sales are good, but if we're to be objective about it, Nintendo is the clearcut winner of this console generation where it matters, the money.
"...Nintendo's business engine is so efficient that even though they sell far less than Sony, they make, bottom line, about as much as all of Sony, Yes, that's right. Little Nintendo generates about as much cash as giant Sony--electronics, movies, the works. (For a bunch of good financial data on this subject in one place, see PCVSConsole)."
http://www.buzzcut.com/article.php?story=200505312 2342247
Nintendo's not on their way out, they're not even close, this generation is gonna be real interesting because Nintendo will probably win it again, but this time, I think it'll be more obvious.
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I stumbled upon another article about Midnight Club Racing for the PSP here's a quote
"The few puzzle games on the PSP are almost an afterthought; it's as if someone at Sony suddenly remembered how many Gameboy Tetris sold."
I thought this would be followed by "jk lol" but it was not. C'mon, for one thing Sony doesn't make all the PSP games ya jackass, and for two, Lumines is not even remotely close to being an afterthought oh lookie there it's the number one rated on gamerankings.com.
Are poorly conceived jokes at best. These people demonstrate a lack of basic understanding in the games industry. What the often fail to mention is how profit pans out, as far as profit goes, Nintendo won this generation big time.
This article which summarily claims that Nintendo is dying, is absolutely terrible. The writer does not understand video games and he doesn't understand Nintendo's current state. A lot of what he says is based on common misconceptions that a lot of you probably have. Misconception 1. Power wins portable wars. A lot of people say the PSP can't lose because WOW look at those graphics, but as someone stated earlier, look at the Sega Gamegear among others, they had better screens and graphics than Nintendo's GBC and GB, and look at them now. Yes, sitting in pawn shops throughout the nation. I don't know enough about demographics and industry trends to say firmly that the PSP will follow a similar fate, but to say that Nintendo will is completely unfounded and silly, 5 million DSs have been shipped already compared to 3 million PSPs. www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/28/ds_psp_sales Now, an ignorant person would look at this as irrefutable fact that Nintendo's up in the game, but I point out that the PSP shipped later and was therefore at a disadvantage. Misconception 2. Sales figures are everything. Let's just say that it was the other way around, with PSP sales at 5 million and DS sales at 3 million, Nintendo would still not be anywhere close to dying. Nintendo did not sell more gamecubes than sony did ps2s, heck they may have not even sold more than MS did, to them, it only sort of matters. Yes better sales are good, but if we're to be objective about it, Nintendo is the clearcut winner of this console generation where it matters, the money. "...Nintendo's business engine is so efficient that even though they sell far less than Sony, they make, bottom line, about as much as all of Sony, Yes, that's right. Little Nintendo generates about as much cash as giant Sony--electronics, movies, the works. (For a bunch of good financial data on this subject in one place, see PCVSConsole)." http://www.buzzcut.com/article.php?story=200505312 2342247
Nintendo's not on their way out, they're not even close, this generation is gonna be real interesting because Nintendo will probably win it again, but this time, I think it'll be more obvious.