| PerturbedKitty said: The only chartz that you posted that are of any relevance is the money chartz because that is what my post was about. everybody knows that nintendo was in the red for the first time in HISTORY at the beginning of the generation. youre not educating anybody, here. their four years of going through a rough patch isnt going to be the end of them. yeah, it ... sucks, but as i stated before, theyre going to be just fine. they are profitting off the wii u, were you trying to refute that point? theyre making money off of every console sold. the bigger point is that nobody is as good at making money off this industry as nintendo. they are 100% self sustaining. they have proven that to be true over the past two decades. |
I really think the reason why Nintendo has been somewhat profitable for the past 2 years has been partly because of the undervalued Yen and partly because of the 3DS. Don't get me wrong, the Wii U has definitely been selling better since it's big titles started hitting in 2014, but Mario Kart and Splatoon could have been 10+ million sellers had they released on a console with an install base like the N64. The Wii U is also missing out on the licensing fees from 3rd party developers, which are non-existent on the Wii U.
I can't prove this statement, but I really think if we knew the total dollars that Nintendo has inputted into the Wii U over it's lifetime versus earnings obtained, the ratio would be worse then what the Gamecube delivered (and Nintendo had gone on record saying that the Gamecube was a failure for them).
