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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Noname on November 22, 2006, 09:12:36 AM
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Merrill Lynch 2011 forecast: Xbox 360 and PS3 win, Wii loses
that said, Merrill Lynch, the firm who said the PS3 won't do well, now says the PS3 will not do so bad. Let's go straight to the numbers. Merrill Lynch has a forecast for the fiscal year ending March of 2011. Wow. They obviously employ really good mathematicians, actuarians, statisticians, and market analysts to make such a confident long-term analysis.
Worldwide: Xbox wins, Wii loses
Xbox 360: 39% of the market
PS3: 34% of the market
Wii: 27% of the market
The PS2 currently has 69% of the market. So by 2011, Microsoft and Nintendo will have doubled their shares, or so says Merrill Lynch. By the way, you might recall that Merrill Lynch had glowing words for Nintendo, and you might remember Merrill Lynch's forecast for the Xbox 360 (in November of 2005 they said the 360 would cost half of the PS3 by the end of 2006).
North America: Xbox 360 wins, Wii loses ("the world's biggest market" according to Merrill Lynch analyst Yoshiyuki Kinoshita)
Microsoft: 50% of the regional market
Sony: 27% of the regional market
Nintendo: 23% of the regional market
Japan: PS3 wins, Xbox 360 loses
PS3: 57% of the national market
Wii: 39% of the national market
This leaves 4% unaccounted for. Merrill Lynch did not mention the Xbox 360.
What do we think? Announcements like this affect business. The future of companies partly depend on investments, and investors really do listen to Merrill Lynch. It is one of the biggest providers of investment advice, wealth management, and asset management services in the world.
We might be tempted to call Merrill Lynch's forecast an "estimate," but these have real impact in the financial world. Fiscal announcements can be self-fulfilling. If investment firms say the Wii will not win, then who'll invest in Nintendo? If Nintendo doesn't have enough money to address really long-term plans, then yes, Nintendo just might really lose.
This is just a estimate so dont get upset already.
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bullchit
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Your thread title is misleading.
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Your thread title is misleading.
LOL. He doesn't speak English.
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Merrill Lynch, the firm who said the PS3 won't do well, now says the PS3 will not do so bad.
So basically all these brilliant mathematicians, actuarians, statisticians, and market research analysts completely changed their opinion in the course of last few months?
Obviously they're not that confident :D
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Merrill Lynch, the firm who said the PS3 won't do well, now says the PS3 will not do so bad.
So basically all these brilliant mathematicians, actuarians, statisticians, and market research analysts completely changed their opinion in the course of last few months?
Obviously they're not that confident :D
Sony paid him/her off
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Your thread title is misleading.
LOL. He doesn't speak English.
Get off my nuts NIK. Go do something usefull. Make some whoppers for your little sister.
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Your thread title is misleading.
LOL. He doesn't speak English.
Get off my nuts NIK. Go do something usefull. Make some whoppers for your little sister.
Notifying someone you don't speak English because you misinterpreted the article is riding your nuts? If you want, I can give your sister a REAL Whopper. As long as she can accept that it'll be bigger than the usual. :-*
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PS3 shipped less number of units than Wii also.
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In a nutshell: Nintendo has no investors. Nintendo runs a very conservative business strategy with no outside involvement; they don't even offer much of their company to stockholders, the vast majority of Nintendo's worth is in cold hard cash (yen) deposited in banks around the world. No matter what Merrill Lynch says, it won't affect investors because Nintendo has none. Nintendo's future doesn't lie in the hands of investors, it basically lies in the hands of children.
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Your thread title is misleading.
LOL. He doesn't speak English.
Get off my nuts NIK. Go do something usefull. Make some whoppers for your little sister.
Notifying someone you don't speak English because you misinterpreted the article is riding your nuts? If you want, I can give your sister a REAL Whopper. As long as she can accept that it'll be bigger than the usual. :-*
Im sorry NIK but my sister dont like them tiny circumcised whoppers.
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Your thread title is misleading.
LOL. He doesn't speak English.
Get off my nuts NIK. Go do something usefull. Make some whoppers for your little sister.
Notifying someone you don't speak English because you misinterpreted the article is riding your nuts? If you want, I can give your sister a REAL Whopper. As long as she can accept that it'll be bigger than the usual. :-*
Im sorry NIK but my sister dont like them tiny circumcised whoppers.
I said BIGGER than usual...My big kosher Whopper is not tiny, trust me.
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Nintendo's future doesn't lie in the hands of investors, it basically lies in the hands of children.
LMAO....classic
peace
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Nintendo is gonna win because it's the most affodable. Simple as that.
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and the most fun..
and the most accessible..
i just hope they dont lose support like happened with gamecube
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with the difference in development costs, plus the developer friendly software and things like the wii-mote software already libraried for use by these companies, I don't see how they could lose support like they have in the past.
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and the most fun..
and the most accessible..
i just hope they dont lose support like happened with gamecube
Game Cube was just a really weak system IMO. I was a Nintendo supporter through-and-through until that console came out. By the looks of things and by what I've been hearing, it seems like Nintendo bounced back with the Wii.