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Sales of Wii and DS significantly down. Nintendo hopes arrival of the 3DS will improve matters in 2011.
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Sales of Wii and DS significantly down. Nintendo hopes arrival of the 3DS will improve matters in 2011.
You forgot to mention that the wii is now far far to expensive for what it is... they need to drastically slash imo, as their current pricing is a joke!
Shock as console released in 2006 sells less units in 2010 than in 2009.
In other news, it was discovered that snow is cold.
People also forget that Nintendo makes a profit on each console made. Both Sony and Microsoft were selling their consoles at a loss for years.
Actually if I am going to be a pedant and say that Snow isn't cold. The concept of hot or cold is relative.:whip:Quote:
Originally Posted by miniyazz
The feeling of loss or gain of temperature is due to the change in heat energy from one object to another. If my hands were below the temperature of snow (assuming this to be 0 degrees C), the snow would feel warm. Heat energy from the snow would try to heat up my hand until an equilibrium is reached where both my hand and the snow is the same temperature. The reverse happens if your hand is hot and you put it into snow.
Since the speed at which this happens is dependant on the difference in temperatures between the objects, putting a hand which has been running under hot water for ten minutes into the snow is going to hurt a lot more than putting a hand which has been in the fridge for ten minutes into the snow.
This is why if you put a cup of room temperature water and boiling water into the freezer. The boiling water will turn to ice first!! :mrgreen:
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That's only going to get worse in 2010.
I'm sure he implied relative to a human. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Astridax93
Actually, if your hands were colder than the snow, the snow wouldn't feel warm, because you'd have no feeling in them :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Astridax93
I've heard the ice thing before and while the sensation of hot-->snow is worse than cold-->snow, I cannot see the same logic applied to ice formation. It will surely take x time to cool from 20*C to 0*C, and x+y time to cool from 30*C to 0*C? The rate of temperature change will be higher, but the change needed for the same result will also be higher, so it will take longer. Unless the water has different properties at higher temps that allow it to cool quicker than expected? I.e. less dissolved O2 affecting it?
TBH Nintendo must have made so much money over the last 5 years from the DS/Wii that if they haven't got a competitive console ready to launch they have only themselves to blame. The fact that sales of their consoles are plummeting and they're still not losing money has to say something.
When you consider that ds has sold 144.6 million since launch and the wii has sold 84.6 million since launch it was inevitable that they would reach saturation eventually.
And right on cue, the 3DS is out to start the ball rolling again. Nintendo know what they're doing, other companies in the sector look on with envy (and imitation) at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by kopite
Isn't this the first time they've posted a loss in their history? Or am I thinking of another corporation...
Have they posted a loss?Quote:
Originally Posted by chis
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Originally Posted by kalniel
Profits dropped to around $600 million in the nine months through December:
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/s...t-1450207.html
its funny that all the doom and gloom at a profit drop when you think sony and Microsofts games division have been running at a loss for a big chunk of this cycle
The PS3 is imitating the Wii at the moment, their new controller is just a stupid looking Wii controller. Kinect on the other hand is a leap above the other two, and it's set to get better if they optimise the code a bit more (talk of a 4x increase in resolution and accuracy).Quote:
Originally Posted by kalniel