Clarification about your thoughts

[jvd]

Now now lets not get into a flame war over how many people like what system on this forum .

 

[Teasy]

Oh, please. There are plenty of Nintendo fanboys on this forum

Yes there are quite a few Nintendo fans on this forum, just less of them then Nintendo haters. Either that or there are just less vocal Nintendo fans compared to the vocal Nintendo haters.

 

[zurich]

Oh, please. There are plenty of Nintendo fanboys on this forum

Yes there are quite a few Nintendo fans on this forum, just less of them then Nintendo haters. Either that or there are just less vocal Nintendo fans compared to the vocal Nintendo haters.

If you say so

 

[zurich]

It's pretty simple really. The area where the GCN is dominating Xbox (Japan) is shrinking in importance. The areas where Xbox is ahead of the Cube (EU, NA) are both becoming a larger share of the overall market.

The other thing is that the real deal is control of the living room. This is really only a Sony vs. MS situation. Nintendo has no forward thinking plan to create a complete living room entertainment solution.

Microsoft is beating Nintendo in the markets that matter in the long run, and doing so at a higher price point with a better ability to capitalize on new trends like online gaming.

The Gamecube (at around 7 million) is behind the Dreamcast in sales in western markets. That's pretty bad.

Where did you get the 7 million sold number? What exactly is the xbox's sell through number?

Subtract the userbase in Japan from 9.55 million.

 

[Magnum PI]

It's pretty simple really. The area where the GCN is dominating Xbox (Japan) is shrinking in importance. The areas where Xbox is ahead of the Cube (EU, NA) are both becoming a larger share of the overall market.

The other thing is that the real deal is control of the living room.

This is really only a Sony vs. MS situation.[/quote]

(this is what MS would like. but despite its massive dollar weapons MS didn't even scratch sony supremacy.. it would in fact be a sony vs. nothing situation.)

Nintendo has no forward thinking plan to create a complete living room entertainment solution.

please no mumbo jumbo BS like...

*control of the living room*
*complete living room entertainment solution*

it's made for abusing investors who know nothing about gaming, it should only be laughed at here..

Microsoft is beating Nintendo in the markets that matter in the long run, and doing so at a higher price point

and loosing lots of money. a "detail" strangely often missed.

with a better ability to capitalize on new trends like online gaming.

new trend ?

this has still to prove it is something major/mainstream and not something niche-like. maybe sony will do it...
and it does not seem to be a cash cow like we were said through MS PR.

The Gamecube (at around 7 million) is behind the Dreamcast in sales in western markets. That's pretty bad.

what were the sales of the dreamcast at the same point of console lifecycle ?
that would be pretty bad if nintendo was loosing money.
better sell less consoles than being in the financial status and loosing money like sega was at the dreamcast time.

what i see is microsoft struggling to equal worldwide sales of nintendo, despite billion dollars lost.. still no sign of profitability..

and the marketshare you can get in one generation of consoles doesn't necessarilly translate into marketshare in the next generation (see nintendo..), so the billions lost for the little marketshare of the xbox could be lost in vain.

what appears in microsoft press releases is they won't even consider nintendo, their target is the PS2, and they missed their target.

and japanese sales still matters, being unable to sell consoles in japan is a problem.