The last six years have been terrible for Nintendo's (NASDAQOTH: NTDOY ) shareholders. After peaking in 2007 with a market cap near $85 billion, Nintendo has steadily collapsed and has now lost over 76% of its value over the last five years.
Unfortunately, this could be the beginning of the end for the once iconic video game company. Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) coming entrance into the video game market, a fairly likely possibility, could signal the end of Nintendo.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
Apple would be more of a threat to their traditional rivals like Sony, from whom they stole the portable music market, and Microsoft who has been their enemy since day one.
It's hard for me to take articles like this seriously, and I am someone who welcomes Apple's entry into the video game market.
Man, wtf this hate for Nintendo come from?? This is not VERY weird an inordinate amount of hate being projected at Nintendo lately in N4G and internet?
The thing is though, Nintendo owns the most popular and profitable IPs in the world, and those IPs will move units. The Wii U is prepping to be just like the 3DS.
You know what would be crazy I hope Nintendo does a hand held phone hybrid. Team with android and create a device that attaches a controller like impute device. So what that would do is put Nintendo in a position to increase revenue by selling phones/handhelds and also allow them to sale there games on their system.
This is the logic of the Internet when it comes down to Nintendo:
"Hey let's pick on the most profitable video game company in the world. Not Microsoft who looks set to dissolve the Xbox division and not Sony who has been losing profits for almost a decade. No, let's just target Nintendo. Nintendo who owns the 2nd best-selling home console of all time (Wii), as well as who owns the most sold video game console of all time (DS), and currently the best selling system on the market (3DS).