Well the original context that I was talking about this being comporable to the Sony situation and I view them as two seperate situation. I would compare it to something but I really do not know a company more mismatched between Nintendo owning a baseball team. The whole reason they owned it is because the chairman bought it with his own money, and somewhere it transititioned to Nintendo and they most likely kept it because Howard Lincoln was incharge. 

Again do not get me wrong, Nintendo has issues, a lot of issues, but Sony's problem when it sold those buildings and Nintendo selling this off are not really the same. 

The XBox was worse than dead though. It was sold at a big loss with no way to make the system cheaper due to NVidia not budging on the price of the components. The XBox lost MS nearly 4 billion in the end. Pretty expensive foot in the door. Afaik Nintendo is still making money with the WiiU.
MS needed to switch to 360 asap, although it cost them over a billion more loss.

However, the OG Xbox had some killer releases in the year or two leading up to the 360's arrival. Halo 2, GTA: San Andreas, Fable...

While the last month or two has been rather good for WiiU releases, it's literally down to #FE and Paper Mario to drag the WiiU up to Zelda U's arrival nearly a year from now.

We'll have to wait and see if NX gets a RROD equivalent at launch and annoys the hell out of most early adopters.

That we know of, sure.

If it is getting less than the 360 (don't really know the scope), a reason could be that it already happened before..

That's what I meant with the extra 1.15 Billion loss.
Yet it was estimated that when XBox hit $299, the BOM was still $425. So every 8 million sales would cost MS 1 billion. Kinda made the decision to risk it with rushed hardware easy. Better spend that billion on a console you're going forward with.

The original XBox was doing well market wise as 2003 and 2004 went along ... it was starting to in the US at least sell on par with the PS2 more and more regularly and Halo 2 was a big, big hit and it had broken Sony's exclusivity on Grand Theft Auto too.

But the design of the XBox and the deal they made with Nvidia was costing them to bleed a lot of money because those components had fixed prices (a rookie mistake by MS).

I would doubt that most people here on vgchartz are old enough to really remember what was going on back in 2005.  The news that MS was dropping the Xbox already was shocking to many Xbox owners at that time.  It was not as big of deal comparitively, because MS was a newcomer still.  The internet was around, but the massive amount of websites and forums today give people a lot more visible place to show their displeasure.  That's why it would "seem" that the WiiU is getting more grief.

Microsoft didn't delay Halo 2 to the 360, so there's no comparison.