RussianSensation
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The current consoles are already saturating the market, and cost <$400 while doing so.
PS4 and XB1 collectively are outselling PS3/XB360 by close to 75%, if not more when accounting for sales from their respective release dates. This console generation is far more successful than the last thus far if we exclude the casual console gamers who left to smartphones, tablets, etc.
Unless it is truly next gen beyond the PS4 and XboxOne, it has to be priced at $199.99 to be viable.
Umm...no. Despite crazy BS marketing by MS and Sony, neither of those firms has a clue how to run their gaming business. Both are improving but if the last 8-10 years are go to by, if either of these were a pure gaming company, they would have been close to bankruptcy.
MS - "Report: Microsoft's Xbox division has lost nearly $3 billion in 10 years"
MS's shareholders have been screaming for close to a decade for MS to purge their gaming business or sell it off as it's a total financial failure.
Sony's PS3 was also another financial failure. Worthless generation for them.
Luckily MS and Sony finally are starting to understand how to run the console business which is to not lose millions of dollars on hardware sales. If anything they have a lot to learn from Nintendo still. What's the point of having 90%+ market share between both of those firms if they are losing billions of dollars?
Might as well call Xbox and PlayStation Contra-Revenue businesses. :awe: We'll see how XB1/PS4 do during their generation but last 2 MS consoles and PS3 were financial catastrophes.
As long as Nintendo's NX makes Nintendo profits over the next 5 years it's on the market, Nintendo is winning and it means the next Nintendo console and more games in the future. Nintendo isn't stupid enough (or doesn't have cash to burn) to waste $3-4 billion dollars to win the marketing game and then end up bankrupt.
If MS and Sony were financially strained firms, at the pace they are going, they would end up the as next Sega.
But since MS has no problem losing billions of dollars with smartphones (Nokia) or Xbox gaming, Nintendo has to be smart how to design their consoles without all that white noise around it. Nintendo can't just chase specs as that has never proven to be a successful formula for them. N64 and GameCube were more powerful than PS1 and PS2 but that didn't matter. Nintendo needs a lot of 1st party games ready at launch not 2-3 years post launch. They also need to get 3rd party support back and get their online infrastructure up to speed. These things matter a lot more than outright outperforming PS4 in specs.
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