@eastland: let's have fun and list all the industries in which Sony has any ownership compared to MS and see who is currently in the most dangerous position towards a monopoly convergence...
@hmoobpaladin: yes. 2 to 3 years later. MS releases their exclusives almost instantly on PC too. What's your point again and why does it have anything to do with denying the transaction or not?
@lonewolf1044: to be fair, this is the case for all gaming companies; not only Nintendo. Many very big devs become much smaller over the years because they couldn't adapt to the industry's changes. No one can tell when one of the big boy is gonna fall. Atari was once one of the biggest power house in history and now it's mostly a bunch of rich guys barely keeping the name alive. Sega was once a major console maker and now they're happy with being "one of many big devs" in the industry.
There is no denying Switch's success, but I wouldn't say it saved Nintendo per se. Nintendo wasn't actually dying or in any situation when they would have gone bankrupt. Wii U's marketing failure did brought Nintendo into its most precarious situation ever, but they did not need that level of success to get back into shape. It just turned out to be an incredible success and it did paved the way for a much brighter future for Nintendo. They could have surfed over a much smaller tide for the last few years and slower growth would have only mean more than one generation to get back to a serious competitor level.
well, yeah, VR install base is seeing constant growth every year since it went mass market and has reach 36M users across all platforms. It is here to stay.
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