So, in before E3 : who won the 7th generation ?

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blublibla said:

jlrx said:

It is obviously the Wii, and you don't have to take into account just the number of consoles. Your "profit" section is also highly inaccurate, you can't call it a profit and then also call it revenue. Did Sony make any money selling the PS3 at a loss? No, they can't count as a revenue until they sold the console at cost or greater, same for Microsoft, so in the 7th generation, which company profited more from their console? We already know it was Nintendo.

So you are saying that Wii Sport Resort is the best game of this generation because it sold the most ?

As I said, a console is a winner depending on the perspective. For manufacturers it's the Wii in term of install based but in the end, the profit counts. For publishers it's the same, and Wii is far from being the most profitable. As for games, well all consoles have enough perks and game exclusives to be good, but in the end when you compare hardware, services and mostly, games, there are some platforms which offer beffet than other.

You asked who was the winner, not who was the best.  Tha analogy being the most popular musician is not necessarily the best.

In the conventional sense and the only sense that really matters, the Wii won, it's not even close to debatable.  It sold more, it sold much faster, made more profit per unit hardware and likely much more profit per unit software.

Revenue is a fairly useless metric of who won and the issue of better software is highly subjective and belongs more in a debate of 'who is the best', rather than ' who is the winner'.

Finally if you want to look at profit, this is the area where the Wii has an absolutely unasailable advantage.  Anyone who thinks otherwise really needs to check their facts.  The Wii made Nintendo literally billions of dollars profit each year between 2006-2009/10.  I haven't looked at the numbers lately but I doubt that, factoring costs for R+D and loss-leading, either MS or Sony turned a profit for the generation. Their balance sheets may have been positive in the last 1-3 financial years but not in amounts that can offset the billions they both lost at the start of the generation.