paulrage2 said:
DonFerrari said:
Putting Virtua Boy in the comparison doesn't make much sense since it was a basically a total catastrophe.
And sorry, but Nintendo didn't pushed the best they could. They certainly could have sold it much cheaper and increased number of releases by increasing the size of the team.
I actually don't remember anything outstanding they tried to make the sales of WiiU good. It seemed more like they saw early on that the system was going to do bad and just bought their time until they were ready for Switch (which probably couldn't have been released earlier, not only because it also is successor to 3DS, but also that technology for the affordable price wasn't ready yet), similar to Sony that as soon as they saw PSVita couldn't be a success they just let it die (versus PS3 where they done all they could because they thought it was still possible to sell good).
Anyway that isn't much relevant. The point I wanted to explain initially is why PS3 is considered a BIGGER MONEY LOSSER than WiiU. And that had to do with selling 85M consoles with a lot of them being 100-200 loss per sale, versus WiiU more or less selling 15M for break even.
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24 million PS3s was sold at loss, the other 63 million was profitable. Sony also did a lot of money with games sold and PS Plus since 2010. Mark Cerny already said that PS4 would never happen if PS3 didn't maked success. WiiU was a total desaster.
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Wasn't the WiiU responsible for Nintendo's first financial year loss and management taking a pay cut. both had negative impacts on their respective companies bottom line, the difference was the PS3 had a larger financial impact but the lengthy correction meant the division was in good shape when it came time to deliver the PS4 . The WiiU's financial impact was less but ongoing poor sales meant their ability to gain back ground was also less, while the poor WiiU sales magnified the already considerable pressure you have with a product launch. the state of the overall business meant they too were like Sony in a good place financially in regard to launching the Switch.
