Quote:just curious what else does Nintendo produce? if it's only game systems (highly unlikely) I could see them going under.

 

Nintendo has enough money, that they could actually lose $250 million  a year for 40 years, and still stay in business.

 

They make a lot of money off of their handhelds.  They've dominated the handheld market for a long time.  Of course smartphone games are starting to kill their dominance.  The 3DS has done well -- but not nearly as well as the DS.  Pokemon is far too profitable for Nintendo to ever go out of business in the near future.

 

It would take some seriously bad investments to knock Nintendo out.  Though it's certainly understandable why some would think that Nintendo could be going out of business.  The WiiU has failed.  They could very well get out of the console business, and stick to handhelds.  Though I don't think it's likely (We'll see them try at least once more).

 

Nintendo can get back up with the next console generation.  It will help if they're willing to embrace some of the things customers want, and if they get a new name for their console.  There's nothing wrong with the name Wii.  But Wii 2 would have done better than Wii U I think.  People just want more from their gaming media now.  I know my kids have no interest in the WiiU, though they love their wii and 3DS's.  


That's not to say Nintendo should give in, and start changing the types of games that go on their system.  Rather that they should try to add features to their systems that people are interested in.  

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