hyde, if you're around that Forbes article from b2 is just all kinds of factually wrong.
Posted by
Inigo (aka Inigo)
Dec 2 '08, 06:51
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Although the spirit of the article is correct, it gets the detail horribly off.
1) Wii retail price is $250. PS3 is $400. Not $260 for the Wii, and $300 for the PS3.
2) As of the companies' last quarterly reports (September), the Wii sold 35 millionish, Xbox 360 22ish, Playstation 3 16ish. They're about 3 million low on PS3.
3) The software totals they have are crazy. I couldn't say exactly what they should be, but anyone estimating that Xbox360 will only selling 5 million more units than PS3 this year hasn't been paying attention. I'd say the breakdown is around Wii 45% of software, Xbox360 35%, PS3 20%.
4) The top 3 titles for Nintendo are WiiPlay, WiiFit and Mario Kart. The top 3 titles for PS3 are Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Metal Gear Solid 4 (by shipped numbers). Granted, the idea of their point stands, but still the facts are off.
5) This is the biggest gaffe. There's just no way Nintendo only makes $6 off every Wii. They were on record as saying they made a profit on each unit at launch. Prices of components always come down considerably during a consoles lifecycle. Yet, somehow the Wii only nets them a $6 profit after two years of keeping the hardware in the box exactly the same.
They're making hundreds of billions of dollars of profit each quarter. You don't get to the point by making your profit solely on software, and the DS hardware.
I like the positive spin Forbes put on Nintendo, but holy crap, it seems like they just made numbers up.
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