jvd said:
There are plenty of times where you will come in and just compalin about chap. There were 3 threads On nintendo loosing money , them stoping production which in the thread said they were loosing money and gonig to become a 3rd party publisher and then a post about how sales were increasing with the price drop also turned into nintendo loosing money and this was a sign they were the number 3 console. All negative. Each of the 3 sony posts were about the same. With people complaining it shouldn't be discussed when if there are the same amount of negative nintendo comments then it should be.
Ok, your not getting this.
There is a fundimental difference between Sony Group and SCE when it comes to revenue and profit taking. Sony itself is enormous with set-piece infastructure all over the damn place for it's product manufacturing.
Nintendo is a game company, more more, no less to any extent as far as revenue goes. So, yes, when they stopped production of GameCube we talk about Nintendo's future as this is a core revenue stream. We question the companies future under increased competition because they are nothing but this, fundimantally nothing but a handheld and console company.
If Nintendo also owned a worldwide chain of butcher shops, would we discuss their future in the console realm based on lowered revenue from thier chain of butcher shops? Would we contimplate their abandonment of the console division which is the most profitable part of the company? Woudl we talk about the firing of the most influential and perhaps forward looking man in that company? Hell no.
And this is why these threads are nothing but flame bait. If you want to compare "Sony" to "Nintendo" or "Microsoft" then do it correctly and look at SCE against Nintendo proper, against Microsoft's Electronics Division.
Yet, as a moderator (and I personally think is embarrasing) you keep inflaming and allowing people like Chap and DeadmeatGA to post thread after thread, post after post about how Sony's going down because they're finally moving out of the CRT production buisness, finally cutting the massive fat off their redundant corperate structure and finally moving forward.
But, nobody seriously discusses this. Hey, why would you when you can post something like, "teh Sony is dyiing!!
They fired employees, KK will be next! Cell is d00m3d!" and you let it go...
And the grand irony is that dispite these "PS2 sales slippage" stories, nobody brought up before I did that even with the "2%" slip or whatever it is,
they still outsold the first 18months of XBox sales in this one quarter. They're still making a profit, and they're still outselling the competition at a pricepoint that's outragous. You wanta talk about bias...
