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INTEREST: Japan's Video Game Rankings, February 4-10

We should save the "Nintendo is dead" stuff until at least a year after launch, not less than 3 months. The first year for a console is always slow since it has so few games. Though the WiiU has already outsold what the PS3 and 360 did back during their first three months for what it's worth.

Nintendo isn't dead at all. They're a continuously profitable money-making machine. It's just that they have a huge handheld gaming market that pretty much nobody can match them in. I think it would be wise to make that their focus is what I'm saying. Good to hear that there is much more consumer spending now than there was in the mid 2000s though.

Megiddo wrote:

Nintendo isn't dead at all. They're a continuously profitable money-making machine. It's just that they have a huge handheld gaming market that pretty much nobody can match them in. I think it would be wise to make that their focus is what I'm saying. Good to hear that there is much more consumer spending now than there was in the mid 2000s though.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/04/nintendo_posts_first_annual_loss_in_30_years !

Not that they're not making big bucks from the 3DS though.

Professional analysis

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/what-happened-to-nintendo-co-ltd-adr-ntdoy-sony-corporation-sne-microsoft-corporation-msft-58496/

Spotlesseden wrote:

Professional analysis http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/what-happened-to-nintendo-co-ltd-adr-ntdoy-sony-corporation-sne-microsoft-corporation-msft-58496/

As games designed for phones and tablets get better and better, handheld gaming systems like the Nintendo 3DS or Sony's PlayStation Vita will disappear entirely.

Yeah, I don't buy this "professional analysis". Those systems, Nintendos handheld especially, will never go away since they are massive in Japan. 3DS has already outsold PS3 in Japan after like a year and a half.