Nintendo has been "dead" a few times now, but they've been going since the 1800s or something when they made playing cards. They also have the capacity to come up with crazy new stuff nobody ever expected. Maybe they're not doing well right now, but I have a hard time believing they're "dead."
On the other side, we have EA, best known for insulting people and lying about DRM, including their ex-customers, who they like to imply are homophobes. They haven't managed anything more inventive than tired Madden retreads and they're best known as a company for having their devs toil away in the EA slave mines, where they make minor stat tweaks to Madden for 26 hours a day.
As a gamer, I know which company has more credibility with me. It's not EA.
The thing about sales figures is they're facts, not opinions. Finding Nintendo "more credible" than EA is an opinion that doesn't change the fact that Nintendo's platform isn't selling very well.
Furthermore, you seem to be conflating two different topics. I'm not a fan of EA's DRM schemes any more than you are, but that's just not relevant in this discussion.
I'm not disputing whether or not their business is doing well, just whether or not I think they will go out of business anytime soon, which is what "walking dead" means to me. To that effect, I have pointed out that they have a long history, have "died" several times, and have proven resilient even when various people imagine them "dead" or anything like that.
It appears that EA is looking only at quarterly revenue and not taking anything else into account. It's exactly what I would expect of them. It's one of the many reasons I mistrust them. People play games to have fun. Dealing with assholes is not fun. If I played EA games, I'd have to deal with EA. So the only winning move is not to play.
>Nintendo has been "dead" a few times now, but they've been going since the 1800s or something when they made playing cards. They also have the capacity to come up with crazy new stuff nobody ever expected. Maybe they're not doing well right now, but I have a hard time believing they're "dead."
Yup, 1889 to be exact. [1]
They made "Hanafuda" cards, which are a very old, traditional set of cards, sometimes used for gambling. Comparing it to poker I think is a somewhat inaccurate yet simultaneously fair comparison [2].
On the other side, we have EA, best known for insulting people and lying about DRM, including their ex-customers, who they like to imply are homophobes. They haven't managed anything more inventive than tired Madden retreads and they're best known as a company for having their devs toil away in the EA slave mines, where they make minor stat tweaks to Madden for 26 hours a day.
As a gamer, I know which company has more credibility with me. It's not EA.