As you are all very well aware of, there is a lot of misinformation around about nintendo's success in teh industry. the majority of people are under the belief they are iin "last" because they sold the fewest units (ironically forgetting about handheld sales). on this same hand, youve got people who say things like nintendo is "for kids" and the likes because apperantly, to them all that exists on gamecube is kirbys air ride and pikmin (which btw is cool). I have heard people actually saying that nintendo may "go the way of sega and fall out of hardware and just make software". Well, those are all proposterous claims. Dont know if its allready mentioned, but i guess a bit of reitteration never hurt anybody, so i'll list a few facts.
FACT: Although nintendo does, but a substantial amount, maintain the fewest number of console units sold - they have for over 2 decades, consistantly outsold their competitors in software (where money is really made).
FACT: Nintendo's intellectual property alone is worth more then microsofts or sonys video game divisions each... combined.
FACT: Nintendo has investors from broker firms abroad considering them a pending "boom". more specifically, merril lynch sayed on the record that "third party developers will flock to the Wii".
FACT: Nintendo is worth more then Ford or GM, at a current market value of $28 billion. (i stated this in another thread, sorry for the reitteration).
FACT: The nintendo DS is exceeding all expectations, and trampling the PSP in sales with a ratio of 3:1, and an even greater ration with their software.
Now, I sound like a serious nintendo a**-smoocher im sure, which i suppose is fine, i just wanted to get some of this off my chest. I dont know about you guys, but when i hear some spoilt, know-it-all little punk kid brat without a clue that cocks his neck and puts on a smug grin and pompously bad-mouths nintendo, it irritates me, and the biggest reason why is because most of what comes out of their mouth is a bunch of bogus garbage. Although this thread is probably not news to many of you, it is great to be armed with some of these facts next time you hear somebody say something dumb like that.
so next time, when someone sais "nintendos in last place! They'll end up making software for the big X and S" you can say "uhm, actually nintendo maintains the largest market value in the industry, leaving sony a bite only a quarter the size that they are". or next time someone sais "the wii is going to flop" you can mention that there are several banks and tons of investors (all who know more about the market than they do) putting millions of dollars into a company that they foresee as growing significantly and gaining huge marketshare.
heres a graph of nintendo's market value, you can see between 03 and 04 there being in a recession, but most importantly, you can see that in the past year alone they have more than doubled! A large majority of that is thanks to the (wonderful) DS. Wait till the Wii is released, they will soar, and the following years will only offer more improvements.
http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/AdvancedChart.jhtml?_DARGS=%2Ffinance%2Fmktguideapps%2Fcompinfo%2FAdvancedChart.jhtml.2
nintendo's symbol - NTDOY, sony's - SNE, microsoft - MSFT, electronic arts, the software giant, ERTS.
FACT: Although nintendo does, but a substantial amount, maintain the fewest number of console units sold - they have for over 2 decades, consistantly outsold their competitors in software (where money is really made).
FACT: Nintendo's intellectual property alone is worth more then microsofts or sonys video game divisions each... combined.
FACT: Nintendo has investors from broker firms abroad considering them a pending "boom". more specifically, merril lynch sayed on the record that "third party developers will flock to the Wii".
FACT: Nintendo is worth more then Ford or GM, at a current market value of $28 billion. (i stated this in another thread, sorry for the reitteration).
FACT: The nintendo DS is exceeding all expectations, and trampling the PSP in sales with a ratio of 3:1, and an even greater ration with their software.
Now, I sound like a serious nintendo a**-smoocher im sure, which i suppose is fine, i just wanted to get some of this off my chest. I dont know about you guys, but when i hear some spoilt, know-it-all little punk kid brat without a clue that cocks his neck and puts on a smug grin and pompously bad-mouths nintendo, it irritates me, and the biggest reason why is because most of what comes out of their mouth is a bunch of bogus garbage. Although this thread is probably not news to many of you, it is great to be armed with some of these facts next time you hear somebody say something dumb like that.
so next time, when someone sais "nintendos in last place! They'll end up making software for the big X and S" you can say "uhm, actually nintendo maintains the largest market value in the industry, leaving sony a bite only a quarter the size that they are". or next time someone sais "the wii is going to flop" you can mention that there are several banks and tons of investors (all who know more about the market than they do) putting millions of dollars into a company that they foresee as growing significantly and gaining huge marketshare.
heres a graph of nintendo's market value, you can see between 03 and 04 there being in a recession, but most importantly, you can see that in the past year alone they have more than doubled! A large majority of that is thanks to the (wonderful) DS. Wait till the Wii is released, they will soar, and the following years will only offer more improvements.
http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/AdvancedChart.jhtml?_DARGS=%2Ffinance%2Fmktguideapps%2Fcompinfo%2FAdvancedChart.jhtml.2
nintendo's symbol - NTDOY, sony's - SNE, microsoft - MSFT, electronic arts, the software giant, ERTS.
