Soundwave on 03 December 2012
| CCFanboy said: You guys make it sound like gamecube was a failure. It was still very profitable for nintendo. And it won't be specifically nintendo attacking casuals next gen. Microsoft have proven they are making a heavy push for casuals. In fact they look to be pushing harder then nintendo currently are. |
I'm actually not sure how profitable the GameCube actually was for Nintendo. Yes they were profitable in those years, but had basically 100% of the handheld market with no PSP or cell phones to deal with and Pokemon was a relatively young franchise at that time still making lots of money through all the merchandise/movies/TV show/toys etc. (these are still around, but probably not quite as big). So they had two big revenue streams (Game Boy Advance and Pokemon) to off set weakness in the GameCube market.
