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Isn't that their normal cycle though? Produce a console that prints money, produce a console that bleeds money, repeat. Seems like their cash reserves keep them
by j-bos 4y ago
Isn't that their normal cycle though? Produce a console that prints money, produce a console that bleeds money, repeat. Seems like their cash reserves keep them nimble enough to experiment and remain independent.
- dastbe 4y agoi don’t think they’ve had a console that bleeds money in the sense that playstations/xboxes have, though they’ve had quite a few flops over the past 20 years
- vikingerik 4y agoTheir only flop in the past 20 years was the Wii U. (The Gamecube is now over 20 years old.)
- rrdharan 4y agoPrevious poster was probably assuming, like I did, that the Virtual Boy was less than 20 years ago…
- deafpolygon 4y agoIt wasn't a flop in my childhood. :'(
- Zircom 4y agoI don't think bleeding money is accurate for Nintendo. They are in the habitat of iterating on their previous consoles instead of just throwing everything out the window each time like some other companies, so even with their consoles that flopped it's not like the R&D money is just down the drain, and I'm sure labor-and-materials-wise they're making some kind of margin on the hardware itself.