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*legally blonde*
*legally blonde*
Some Nintendo What Ifs
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*reading Teasy's previous posts here*
Teasy you stole my numbers! I made a post pretty much like yours last week!
You number stealerest!
Teasy you stole my numbers! I made a post pretty much like yours last week!
You number stealerest!
A company making profits is hardly merely an excuse to hide behind though, after all its the whole point of being in business.. If Nintendo were selling loads of consoles (as they could if they decided to subsidise everything heavily) and losing money hand over fist I certainly wouldn't be backing them long term. If I did by saying "well they're going down the drain financially but look at all the marketshare" then that really would be an excuse.
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Teasy said:Which post?, which numbers?
Looky http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?p=585472&highlight=xbox#post585472
Teasy said:
Profits have to be balanced with marketshare though.
If Nintendo only made 1 console, but sold it for $5 more than it cost to make it, it would be a profit. Even Nintendo admits that they are on the unfavorable side of that balacing act right now, having repeatedly blamed the Gamecube for lower than expected earnings over the past 4 years. They are already at the point where a further drop in marketshare will mean reduced profits in the long term.
And if supporting a console means their long term profits will be reduced, you have to begin to question if the bean counters at Nintendo accept that loss of profits or stop competing in what is for them an unprofitable market.
Teasy said:Yet you didn't realise what I meant when I mentioned the exact same numbers
Errr ok u win.
I have a new What If.
What if Nintendo turns to porn?
Super Mario Bros and Princess Whatever would take a whole new meaning....
Yes. It's some Nintendo porn that LB's developing. Bet you're sorry you got involved now!Teasy said:
Teasy said:
You win a whole troll all for you. To follow you around and bore you to death with Sony's FLOPS figures and MS's profit figures. And tell u that Nintendo are teh doomed.
Teasy said:I think you'll find that my math is fine, you simply can't read properly
I didn't say that there are 110 million XBox/PS2 owners. I said there are 110 million total current gen console owners. 90 million PS2's, 20 million XBox's and 20 million GC's owned by around 110 million gamers.
91.62 million PS2s as of July 26th.
22 million Xboxes as of June 30th.
18.6 million Gamecubes as of June 24th.
Total = 132.22 Million
Of course, that's several months old. I don't know how much MS has added, but Sony averages about a million a month.
I need evidence to disprove your guess work do I?
So you are saying that market trends have not reversed, correct? In that case, it would be wrong to assume that they will when you have absolutely no supporting evidence, correct?
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london-boy said:
You win a whole troll all for you. To follow you around and bore you to death with Sony's FLOPS figures and MS's profit figures. And tell u that Nintendo are teh doomed.
This is the funniest thread this week. Keep it up guys.Powderkeg said:I wish I could edit.
I forgot to say that you are still counting every single GCN owner as an Xbox or PS2 owner as well. There is no way that 100% of the GCN userbase owns one of the other current-gen consoles.
I don't think he said that.
Personally I think that *many people* own 2 consoles. Or have owned, which is the same thing cause it all shows in sales figures anyway, whether you still have the console or not.
london-boy said:
Yeah, it's back to the non-editing problem. It's early, I haven't had enough caffine, and ddin't read his response correctly. That last post of mine was just wrong.
But my point stands. There are enough non-Nintendo system owners out there that even if just a fraction of them bought a Nintendo game, it would turn a profit for them, and a big-name game like Zelda could probably rake in GTA type sales figures.
I'll reply to the rest of your comments later Powderkeg:
I'm not, I'm assuming that there are 110 million total current gen console owners owning around 130 million consoles between them. With around 20 million of those PS2 owners owning a GC and/or XBox (and another 20 million owning only a XBox or GC).
I'm not, I'm assuming that there are 110 million total current gen console owners owning around 130 million consoles between them. With around 20 million of those PS2 owners owning a GC and/or XBox (and another 20 million owning only a XBox or GC).
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Powderkeg said:
System is there so newbies (or naughty boys) learn to think before posting!
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