• Sony's PSN is making more money than all of Nintendo
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[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-28-sonys-psn-is-making-more-money-than-all-of-nintendo[/url] [quote]Sony's PlayStation Network made more money than all of Nintendo during the last financial year. The difference was pointed out this morning by Twitter user ZhugeEX: [media]https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/725576475177553921[/media] During the financial year ending 31st March 2016, Sony's PlayStation Network generated 529.1bn yen in sales. During the same financial year, the whole of Nintendo pulled in 504.4bn yen in sales. In terms of operating income, or profit, PlayStation made 88.7bn yen (£538m). Nintendo made 32.8bn yen (£207m).[/quote]
Paid online gaming tends to do that.
Breaking news: Nintendo is slow to catch up with the times.
[QUOTE=Keychain;50220186]Breaking news: Nintendo is slow to catch up with the times.[/QUOTE] The next 10 Mario titles will fix that for sure!
Nice to see someone at Sony is doing something right. After watching their movie arm release crap movie after crap movie I just assumed no one there knew what they were doing.
Well that's what happens when You are basically Mario and Sonic. And generally worse than Playstation. I have known lots of people with PSP but none with DS. That's my personal opinion though.
[QUOTE=sam6420;50220197]Interesting how a small part of Playstation is making as much as all of Nintendo. I hope the Playstation and Xbox hype die down a bit in the coming years, I'd love to see more Nintendo.[/QUOTE] It's not the playstation or xbox hype that's doing this, Nintendo seriously needs to step it up.
It's a shame but Nintendo has been behind the times for a really long time now
[QUOTE=Knurr;50220242]Well that's what happens when You are basically Mario and Sonic. And generally worse than Playstation. I have known lots of people with PSP but none with DS. That's my personal opinion though.[/QUOTE] DS outsold the PSP by twice as many units.
[QUOTE=Knurr;50220242]And generally worse than Playstation. I have known lots of people with PSP but none with DS. That's my personal opinion though.[/QUOTE] Lol no. The handheld market is the one thing Nintendo is winning.
[QUOTE=Knurr;50220242]Well that's what happens when You are basically Mario and Sonic. And generally worse than Playstation. I have known lots of people with PSP but none with DS. That's my personal opinion though.[/QUOTE] I'll have to check my sources again but I'm pretty sure most if not all the Pokemon games have outsold most of the Mario/Sonic titles. [editline]•[/editline] You're also forgetting that Sony gave up on the Vita completely and consider it a legacy system outside of Japan, and completely shut down the Vita TV everywhere. The PSP maybe, thanks to decently priced memory cards and Monster Hunter, but definitely not the Vita.
[QUOTE=sam6420;50220197]Interesting how a small part of Playstation is making as much as all of Nintendo. I hope the Playstation and Xbox hype die down a bit in the coming years, I'd love to see more Nintendo.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't call PSN a "small part." PSPlus is pretty much mandatory considering all games have some kind of online component now, and most people have stopped buying physical goods so the PS Store is probably selling better than ever.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;50220311]Wouldn't really call it winning since mobile "games" make the market almost nonexistent. There is nothing but losers in the handheld business and all that means is that Nintendo is the King of the Losers.[/QUOTE] that's because phones will just, naturally outnumber pocket consoles by default they aren't nearly as powerful however, as a dedicated gaming system
[QUOTE=J!NX;50220322]that's because phones will just, naturally outnumber pocket consoles by default they aren't nearly as powerful however, as a dedicated gaming system[/QUOTE] Whether or not they're powerful doesn't really matter. Maybe it's more powerful but if power isn't something people really give a shit about in the mobile market and phone games fill the niche then it doesn't matter if you've got two miniature titans in there if there's no market for handheld consoles.
[QUOTE=Keychain;50220186]Breaking news: Nintendo is slow to catch up with the times.[/QUOTE] dude what nintendo revolution gonna innovate the shit out of you
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;50220264]DS outsold the PSP by twice as many units.[/QUOTE] Hell, the DS family is the second best selling video game console of all time. As of 2016, they're sitting at 154 million sold, only 1 million behind the PS2.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;50220311]Wouldn't really call it winning since mobile "games" make the market almost nonexistent. There is nothing but losers in the handheld business and all that means is that Nintendo is the King of the Losers. Nintendo is so behind the times it hurts.[/QUOTE] I dunno, the 3DS is extraordinarily successful. It's just that very, very specific mobile phone games become blockbuster sales successes and everything else is absolutely modest or a failure in comparison. The Vita got utterly trashed and was basically a market failure, and the PSTV was even worse because there was no marketing for it besides word of mouth, so in comparison to Sony, Nintendo succeeded there. But Nintendo is behind the times, since their Wii U is failing hard and the 3DS can't carry all of the work, not to mention Sony having enough oomph to be able to carry themselves on PSN alone.
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;50220295]I'll have to check my sources again but I'm pretty sure most if not all the Pokemon games have outsold most of the Mario/Sonic titles. [editline]•[/editline] You're also forgetting that Sony gave up on the Vita completely and consider it a legacy system outside of Japan, and completely shut down the Vita TV everywhere. The PSP maybe, thanks to decently priced memory cards and Monster Hunter, but definitely not the Vita.[/QUOTE] They didn't consider the Vita specifically, they considered the first Vita model (PCH-1000) as a legacy device.
I'd like to see the eShop and online features from Nintendo stay free, but I grow with ever increasing concern they are looking at PS+ and Xbox Live and seeing dollar signs. I always wondered if this was one of the features people considered Nintendo to be "behind the times" in, as I think they have other problems they should be tackling instead of making you pay for your internet twice.
Well despite the Subs costs for PSN and XBL, the Nintendo network just isn't a good system. The download servers are prone to massive slowdowns for games just for starters, took me like 3 days to download Bayonetta 2 on a 75mbit connection. They didn't even know how they were gonna implement it on the Wii-u when the first units were being mass produced, it just wasn't very well planned at all.
[QUOTE=sam6420;50220197]Interesting how a small part of Playstation is making as much as all of Nintendo. I hope the Playstation and Xbox hype die down a bit in the coming years, I'd love to see more Nintendo.[/QUOTE] Are you saying that hype from Sony and Microsoft is the thing that is making Nintendo not do well?
I hope the rumors of the NX being a merger between console and handheld are true. Would be nice to be able to buy Nintendo games on just one platform.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;50220311]Wouldn't really call it winning since mobile "games" make the market almost nonexistent. There is nothing but losers in the handheld business and all that means is that Nintendo is the King of the Losers. Nintendo is so behind the times it hurts.[/QUOTE] That's kinda sad, because games for the Nintendo DS are light years away from that garbage. They cost money yes, but you also mostly get what you payed for, and thats quality.
Nintendo is not doing well because the only strength they have philosophy wise is polishing a game until it glows in the dark, and they aren't doing that for the customer, they're doing it because it's an ingrained work ethic still in the company based on pride of product. Keep treating devs and customers like crap and you will go the way of the dinosaur eventually.
[QUOTE=sam6420;50220197]Interesting how a small part of Playstation is making as much as all of Nintendo. I hope the Playstation and Xbox hype die down a bit in the coming years, I'd love to see more Nintendo.[/QUOTE] Unless Nintendo releases something new then I won't bother. Honestly I don't care to play a mario party game that is "totally different than the last one because we changed the character colors". There was some cool things on the Wii that took fluid control of the motion and incorporated it fairly well even if they did have some of the most shovel ware. I'm just not interested in buying a console for games that have been fucked over a barrel to the point of making CoD look more original each year.
[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;50220390]Hell, the DS family is the second best selling video game console of all time. As of 2016, they're sitting at 154 million sold, only 1 million behind the PS2.[/QUOTE] That's a bad comparison. The PS2 is a single console generation and while it was sold for a long period after it had an official successor 6 years after the release while the DS is a product line that is still selling and producing new versions and has been since 2004. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not saying the DS isn't doing well but trying to compare it like that is filthy
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;50220198]The next 10 Mario titles will fix that for sure![/QUOTE] I hope they will do Super mario all-stars NX or F-zero NX
[QUOTE=Elspin;50220732]That's a bad comparison. The PS2 is a single console generation and while it was sold for a long period after it had an official successor 6 years after the release while the DS is a product line that is still selling and producing new versions and has been since 2004. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not saying the DS isn't doing well but trying to compare it like that is filthy[/QUOTE] To clarify - DS family explicitly refers to the original DS, DS lite, DSi and DSi XL only. The 3DS family is considered to be a whole different thing, if it was being included I would've said 213 million. As for the period of time, the PS2 was sold for 12 years and 10 months total and the DS family has been on sale for 11 years and 5 months, I don't think it's an unfair comparison at all.
sad fact is that you can't keep pumping out the same stuff and expect to stay afloat. a massively unpopular opinion a few years ago but now it seems like even nintendo fanboys are starting to admit it what happened to the ambition?
[QUOTE=Jund;50220907]sad fact is that you can't keep pumping out the same stuff and expect to stay afloat. a massively unpopular opinion a few years ago but now it seems like even nintendo fanboys are starting to admit it what happened to the ambition?[/QUOTE] Except that the most hyped games are all sequels, for all three consoles
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