Quote Originally Posted by Leo_A View Post
You weren't so bold when you stated that? You're stretching things about as far as you can in making that claim. Predictions don't come much more bold these days than stating that a major console/handheld manufacturer that has a major stake in just about every electronics/media business there is is going to discontinue a major system at age 1.

The only way it could possibly happen were to be if Sony itself implodes and the company disappears or they have to take drastic measures to trim most of the company off in a last ditch attempt to save something out of the rubble with the Vita being a victim.



I think if you were to actually check the facts, Sony's corporate issues go back well over half a decade. Their situation hasn't changed that drastically over the past three or four years.



I really doubt they ever said anything of the sort. I've seen quotes expressing some disatisfaction with where they currently are with it. But nothing that suggests that they're anything but confident that it's in for a successful life when all is said and done.

And if they did, I'm sure they'd be fighting harder. For instance if they really thought that, there's no way that they'd be all but silent during E3 just a few months after launch. Instead what I witnessed to me suggests that Sony expected and was prepared for the thing to have a slow opening few months.

If anything shocked them, I bet it has been Japan's reluctance to leave their beloved PSP behind and upgrade. And I doubt they're losing any sleep over a slow start in a territory that was never that huge of a market to begin with that has been in a decline for years where videogaming is concerned.



People that like making bold predictions like how we're nearing a new crash, that console's are going away, that handhelds are going away, that AAA games are going extinct, that we're going to an all streaming model in the near future, that physical media is going to disappear years before internet infrastructure would be anywhere close to making it viable, were still regularly making such claims about the 3DS earlier this year almost before the plastic had even had a chance to cool on the first unit manufactured last year. Instead the 3DS is nearing the end of 2012 on an uptick with what appears to be a promising future. And certainly premature death has ceased to be something people bring up (as if it was ever a real concern).

And be aware that Nintendo is more than just a handheld company. I suspect if I were to investigate their latest financial reports that I'd see most of the reasons why they're in their current financial situation being directed towards the slow start the 3DS enjoyed, poor performance of their legacy systems, financial market issues out of their control like currency exchange rates, and it having been almost absent in the console world for an extended period until next month's Wii U launch.

I suspect that they're pretty pleased at where the 3DS is now.



No, but that's also not what you stated that I called nonsense.
I stand by my comments, but thanks for stopping by.