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Short answer:
Yes, as long as they keep their handheld strong, everything should be super.
Long answer:
I think Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all have done rather well in terms of profits, although I could be entirely wrong, since I have no interest in profits /who sold the most games this Christmas 
As for how will Nintendo's next-gen console fare againt the others, I have a little rant about diversity in consoles which I need to disperse first, but skip the following paragraph and you'll jump to the conclusion  :
There really isn't that much of a difference between the consoles these days anyway - graphics have reached their peak for consoles - resulting in little to no diversity between the consoles. Adding to this point - little diversity with the game selection aswell - no developers have sold themselves out to a single company (...well, except for the ones who sold themselves to EA  ), resulting in the same games across all consoles. Great for people who can't/ don't want to own all consoles but want to be able to play virtually any game. Sucks for people (including me) who like diversity in consoles (adds to reminiscence value ).
Due to the minor diversity, decisions on buying consoles are less based on the games as they once were. More than before, decisions will be made from a selections of other things to compensate for the lack of diversity, such as backwards compatiblity, and other shit you don't need, like hard drives, wire-less features, net-play, etc. One thing Nintendo has, that the others don't, is First party games. There is big bucks in Nintendo's pocket already, since a large selection of games are inaccessible on non-Nintendo consoles. If Nintendo can continue to produce high quality games (so their First party games mean something to the consumer), aswell as get their claws on some RPG developers (since I feel that a lot of the market is made up of RPG whores), then their next console should be more successful.
But don't expect new consoles to hit the shelves for another year or two. |
