Great Comparison and illustration! Kudos!

It almost seems to me that Nintendo is only shipping as many consoles as it needs to maintain 60% market share and socking away any surplus Wii's for Game Launches and Holidays.

360 jumped up a lot in May, was that when the Halo 3 beta started?

vizunary said:
this kinda sounds like trolling. what, do you actually think sony's just gonna fade away? hell, 2 flops in a row and N manage to pull through.


The difference is, even with their consoles flopping, Nintendo always managed to make a profit on them.


How did Nintendo collect a profit on the Gamecube. The price dropped to a hundred dollars very quickly and there were reports in Gamepro that The christmas that the gamecube dropped to $99, the Company lost 26.7 Million dollars so is that a profit?

Everybody in the gaming industry lost money in 2001 following the terrorist attack of 9/11 -- Nintendo's revenues 'only' hit $3.7B. However, its rock-bottom worst without that influence was actually 2003, when Nintendo's net sales were $4.2B with a net income reported of $561M (down from $802M the year before). This time period of 2003 is when the Gamecube prices were slashed and Nintendo took the budget-minded GC to China, which sounds like the era to which you're referring.

So, Nintendo's WORST year (2003) in the last decade still resulted in a $561M net income.

For the sake of comparison, EA's (the #2 publisher behind Nintendo) BEST year (2004) for this same time period resulted in a net income of $577M.

Nintendo has been successful in the video game industry for about 35 years now because they're just not in the business of losing money. It's that simple.

I remember reading that Nintendo only posted one quarter in the red for the last 2 decades, that was probably it.

 Nintendo only had one quarter where they didn't make profit

way things are heading, we could see a less than 100k worldwide month for the ps3 by the end of the summer.

For reasons stated above, I doubt we'll see the PS3 sales drop much further than where they are now.

In a few months, they will start to increase. I doubt they will increase enough to make a real dent in the market (compared to the other consoles' increases), but that's another topic entirely.