What is a large company that you never expected to fail, that did?

[Dissitesuxba11s]

1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

I wasn't surprised by that, they were expensive.

It also doesn't help that Amazon is a more convenient and cheaper place to buy toys. Kids are also becoming more technology oriented often playing with their parent's iPad more than a toy.

[Mira Yurizaki]

50 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

They also banked on their own internal API - which is essentially the same issue that DirectX12 and Vulkan have, except even worse because only 3dfx cards could use it.

Eh, I'd argue Glide3D was the catalyst that started the apparent need for a 3D acceleration card. If anything, 3dfx's mark in history was that it kickstarted the whole 3D acceleration craze.

 

I mean before then you had 3D accelerators that either ran worse or not much better that software rendering.

 

[dalekphalm]

8 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Eh, I'd argue Glide3D was the catalyst that started the apparent need for a 3D acceleration card. If anything, 3dfx's mark in history was that it kickstarted the whole 3D acceleration craze.

 

I mean before then you had 3D accelerators that either ran worse or not much better that software rendering.

 

Yes at the beginning.

 

But they didn't adapt. Yes Glide3D started the proper surge to 3D Acceleration, but long term they didn't adapt with the market and the changing conditions.

[Shreyas1]

NCIX

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, Shreyas1 said:

NCIX

While one could argue that NCIX is doing badly - they haven't failed:

http://www.ncix.com/

[Drak3]

Linus Media Group.

 

 

 

 

Kappa.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Linus Media Group.

 

 

 

 

Kappa.

For the sake of this forum, I hope not.

[MasonBitByte]

K-Mart

[helliott2007]

Misco just went...

[Eduard the weeb]

1 hour ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Maybe, and also they grew too fast. Too many new stores without the demand for them.

ah ok cool

[Guest]

Atari and sega. They're not really failing but more sooo.... On a thread? 

They lost huge market share, and console dominance. 

 

The real question is:

How is Nintendo still IN business? 

[Syntaxvgm]

13 minutes ago, fpo said:

Atari and sega. They're not really failing but more sooo.... On a thread? 

They lost huge market share, and console dominance. 

 

The real question is:

How is Nintendo still IN business? 

by being different than sony and MS - different consoles and different kinds of games. 

Switch is doing them really well and the wii u's failures weren't the console itself, it was pretty good. 

[Volbet]

17 minutes ago, fpo said:

Atari and sega. They're not really failing but more sooo.... On a thread? 

They lost huge market share, and console dominance. 

 

The real question is:

How is Nintendo still IN business? 

Atari's main market today is as a game publisher and they're supposedly doing quite decent at that.

Sega, while no longer competing on the home console market, is still a huge player on the lucrative arcade market in Japan and some of their IPs are still reasonably successful and valuable.

 

Nintendo is still in business because they've been rather smart with their financial planning.

Instead of focusing on rapid expansion they've kept their income as a safety net.

 

One of the main companies that comes to mind is Enron.

With hindsight being 20/20 it's easy enough to see why they failed, but in the late 1990s they seemed immortal.

 

Another company would be RCA.

While RCA never officially died, it was absorbed into GE following the massive failure of the CED format.

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Switch is doing them really well and the wii u's failures weren't the console itself, it was pretty good

The WiiU's failure was largely due to it's name residing on the legacy of its immediate predecessor, and games like Star Fox Zero having good promise but were ultimately shit experiences due to bad implementation of motion control.

And no GC B/C.

1 hour ago, fpo said:

The real question is:

How is Nintendo still IN business?

Making consistently good games helps.