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"prices,games as films and companys at there last console?"

If you look at past era's, consoles launched, and they were expensive. Then, they dropped after a year and a half, and by just a little bit. Then, a while after, dropped, but by a little bit again. What i mean is, they dropped slowly and gradually through their life span.


But my point is, they seem to be rushing the price drops so much! Why? They're going to lose so much money out of this! I mean, it's getting serious. We know MS is already losing money by the buckets, i'm not sure about Sony, and Nintendo is making profit, but at the rate the price war is going, they'll be losing money too.


Now, i don't know what's the thing here, but it seems like it's a race. They seem to be lowering their prices by the gallons, and so fast. I mean, ok, PS2 was out a year and a half, so a price drop was a given, but 100$ is still a lot for a 1 year and a half price drop. But Xbox? Oh come on! That's illogical. The console was out 6 or 7 months, and they already drop it 100$ down! GCN, same thing, but 50$. And i think 50 bucks for 6 months of lasting is a kinda relatively big drop.


Before we know it, they're going to be giving out consoles in your local fish and chip shop. :s

P.S

As we all know, games that become movies usually suck. Anyway,allthough I have seen RE , but I hear that many people are rating it a load of rubish,which it is compared to a lot of film such as gladiator,but it's not that bad,in a way. Anyway, I hear they're planning to shoot House of the Dead on a $12 million budget, just to continue the tradition of good games making awful movies.

Despite all this, I think that there are some games will make make great movies if people would slash the cash and put the effort into it,them games are(to name a few) of course, MGS,Halo,zelda and many more. That said, with a halfway decent budget (what are they thinking with $12 million, although they'll probably make a bit more). Anyway, does anyone else have titles of games that should be made into movies?

THE LAST?
I've read on webpages and stuff that some people reckon that Nintendo won't make another console (like Sega) and only makes games, why would they think that?

Admittedly, this stems from a misquote from Satoru Iwata where he meant that Nintendo are going to concentrate more on games for the GC rather than going to work on a more powerful multi-media console like Microsoft and Sony, but how would Nintendo not survive in the future? I mean, financially, Nintendo have rarely had it better, the last two years have seen record rises in profits for the company, and they survived despite the rather lacklustre performance of the N64, which (while being a brilliant console) didn't play CDs as the PS did or do FMVs (at least the GC can do FMV's but most decent games just use Real-time graphics), and the GC has certainly done a good deal better in its early life than its predeccessor, and they are still a force to be reckoned with (as Sony's decision to hold a lot of money in reserve to counter Mario Sunshine's launch proved)

Any other reasons as to why some people seem to think that the GC will be Nintendo's last?

moderation wrote:
> Tribute wrote:
> I hope it was a mis-quote
>
> what do you meen by a "mis-quote"?
>
> me not understand :(

You know, in the last paragraph, okay 2nd to last, you say about 'no more hardware'? That is what I mean.

Tribute wrote:
> I hope it was a mis-quote

what do you meen by a "mis-quote"?

me not understand :(

I hope it was a mis-quote

Fosbe wrote:
> They wil want to reduce there price of the consolesas much as possible
> so the consumer will buy theres and not anyone elses. They make there
> money on the software and pherials and soon online gaming. But the
> main business aims are to own the whole industry. If one company got
> hold of a 95% of the industry like microsoft do on the pc industry
> they can make so much money. I belive this is the era of trying to win
> that percentage. Thats why ms have put so much money in, they plan to
> do what they have done with the pc industry. Once they have done that
> they can think about world domination, or not. I see it as spend money
> now lose a bit reap the massive rewards in 5 to 20 years time.


What are consolesas?

.... exactly, long term planning :o).

They wil want to reduce there price of the consolesas much as possible so the consumer will buy theres and not anyone elses. They make there money on the software and pherials and soon online gaming. But the main business aims are to own the whole industry. If one company got hold of a 95% of the industry like microsoft do on the pc industry they can make so much money. I belive this is the era of trying to win that percentage. Thats why ms have put so much money in, they plan to do what they have done with the pc industry. Once they have done that they can think about world domination, or not. I see it as spend money now lose a bit reap the massive rewards in 5 to 20 years time.

moderation wrote:
> yeh,but even after it was on sale the price still went down

It did? Where? Nintendo made them drop the price to £129 just before launch, it still costs £129.

The only reason it looked like a price cut occured was that lots of shops were taking pre-orders at £169 because that was the price they believed they were going to launch at.

Nicely put :o)

Well lets put it this way! When the N64 got down to £60 you were still paying £40 for the games. Why is this? Because a console doesn't sell without games. You need games. So that is where the money is made

moderation wrote:
> I would have been willing to pay £400 for my gc even if x-box
> and ps2 were £30

But then you would be more likely spend less on the Games (unless you have a very deep wallet), and as that is where their profit base is, thats where they want you to spend it :o).

They would prefer you to spend £400 on games, and make a larger profit, rather than you spend £400 and make a tinny profit, no profit or a loss.