We all know who is Nintendo? It is one of the largest gaming companies in Japan and the whole world, and its history extends back more than 123 years. It is the company that designed the games device that we enjoyed when we were young, “Family”, which was the first gaming device to support external game bars and it is the same company that provided us with the most famous game. Mario “Now our children are playing with their Wii device and some carry their other 3DS device, but it seems that this company has started to collapse, as it announced the results of their fiscal quarter, achieving losses for the first time in the history of the company, estimated at $ 454.4 million. Means that the company began to collapse, and this matter became evident to everyone, so why did this company achieve the losses that made everyone sad? ... even Mario

The company has been suffering during the past years due to a large decrease in profits, but this decrease has now reached the negative area, meaning it has become operating losses. Analysts were justifying these declines due to the failure of Nintendo to release a new gaming platform. Brand new despite the passage of 2006 years and the company was satisfied with only updates, and in March 6 it launched the 2011DS portable gaming device and then reduced its price to $ 3 only, and indeed it achieved good sales and reached 169.99 million devices, but these sales did not achieve the required ambitions and the results of the business appeared announcing losses of half a billion dollars For the first time in the history of the Japanese giant, but did you know that one of the reasons for the device not achieving the desired sales and the occurrence of these losses is the iPhone and its older brother the iPad?

The iPhone is sold in the United States at $ 200 (a mandatory contract), the iPod is sold at $ 200 as well, and their competitor in the field of 3DS games is sold at $ 170, and for the Wii the price is $ 150, which means that Nintendo devices are slightly cheaper. But By buying an iPhone, you have the latest phone in the world + a built-in iPod to listen to audio + the ability to browse the Internet + one of the best cameras in phones in the world + a software store with more than three quarters of a million applications, but in Nintendo you only own a games device and there is nothing In addition, only a great gaming device and it may need another device to work (in the case of the Wii), but this is not the only obstacle, but also the price of the games, so the price of one game in the Nintendo 3DS is at least $ 5 and $ 35 in the case of the Wii for one dollar Or just two dollars for most iPhone games, and you can refer to our previous article Via this link Which we explained in detail how the iPhone contributed to the evolution of the gaming environment.

Nintendo must currently seek to develop itself in order not to start the series of crashes as happened with BlackBerry and wake up too late. Indeed, it announced that the second version of the Wii gaming device will be available at the end of this year under The name Wii U In addition to launching the 3DS games device at a price of $ 170, but there is still a step everyone awaits, which is for Nintendo to give up its stubbornness and decide to enter the iOS games market and present a number of its exclusive games that everyone loves, especially the most famous game “Super Mario”, which will definitely achieve huge sales. Nintendo will do it and enter the market that has long mocked and attacked him, and its president previously mentioned that iOS is his company's first enemy? No one knows, but we hope that it remains the company that everyone loved and does not cause stubbornness to end.

Do you think Nintendo can make a comeback? Or does it continue to be stubborn and its fate is like BlackBerry, but in the field of games? Share your opinion

Source | cultfmac

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