Wii mania is in full swing right now, with the system selling for $400 or $500 on eBay. And while it's great to be making the must-have gift this year, Nintendo execs are rightfully bemoaning the missed opportunities the shortage is creating.
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Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
When the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S first launched all the way back in 2020, console sales were not what either platform manufacturer wanted them to be. The pandemic slowed things down more than ever before, even though in the case of each next-gen console, all the units that were manufactured, sold.
Of course that didn’t last, and soon manufacturing limitations on the consoles were a thing of the past, and sales started to leap forward. For one next-gen console platform, at least.
I can see why Microsoft is putting their games on PlayStation with these numbers
Imagine how many copies of future games like Elder Scrolls VI, Blade, Indiana Jones and more they could sell if they went fully multiplatform.
Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E's" Don't fall for it.
Idiots, it's sold out everywhere. 360 is gonna sell great regardless but for PS3, this could be a break. It helps that there's only 2 competitors on the Market, instead of 3.
Pretty crazy indeed. Now lets hope they don't pull a John and say they are bigger than Jesus ;)
The shortage is helping the guys at Ebay more than Nintendo. They should've kept cranking out Wiis, their sales numbers would've been off the charts.
Imho its a bit unfair to blame Nintendo for the limited supply, they pushed out more units than anyone before in a single year. There is just more demand than supply, deal with it, i bought mine 3 days before x-mass LAST year. And it was the 2nd last in that megastore. You can't just magically rise supply from nowhere. The things have to be produced somewhere, and Nintendo does not want to produce faulty crap that haunts them half a year later with inflated warranty returns.
I still think Nintendo needs to do something, I guess the reason why sony can pump out so much is because they have more factories or are more organized with their building process, because if anyone has seen inside of a PS3 and what goes in it vs a wii, you see where im coming from, i remember at one point i think one supplier dropped nintendo to go help sony make their parts, im not sure if that had any "BIG" effects but, they need to open up more factories, because when I go to stores from time to time, Nintendo doesnt put alot of units out on the floor, so its not going to take long for someone to snatch up around 10 consoles per store in less than an hour, so if they usually ship around 10-20units per store and 40+ for special days then there is something wrong with how they are pumping out.