The gamecube was in second place not third

[Squilliam]

ph4nt said:

Squilliam said:
Unless theres a clear distinction between the highly profitable GB/GBA/DS of the time and the Gamecube one cannot say that the Gamecube made massive profits. I haven't seen anything which proves beyond a doubt the performance of the Gamecube as a profit driving entity. Does anyone have such proof.

In the post I linked you, if you add up Nintendo profits from 2001-2006 you get a grand total of...

$5,337,861,430 for Nintendo

For Sony's entire history you have.

$1,674,413,200. That's roughly 31% of Nintendo's profits during the Gamecube era.

 

Now of course the GBA was largely succesfull during this time and the DS was starting to take off, but I highly doubt that accounted for 70% of Nintendo's profits.

If Gamecube didn't outprofit Sony's game division, it was pretty damn close.

 

 

Those are inflation adjusted numbers. The thing is that noone uses inflation adjusted numbers in accounting reports from my basic one paper accounting knowledge from ages past.

Nintendo during that Era was selling a large quantity of Gameboy line handhelds, these are extremely cheap because they had gone through several transitions from GB -> GB Colour -> Gameboy Advance -> Gameboy Advance SP as the major changes. They likely made more money on handheld hardware than console hardware and they made more money on handheld software than console software because they had several massive Pokemon games come out in quick succession during that era.

Its a pretty big assertion that a console which only sold roughly 20M units would make up a large proportion of Nintendos earnings when the handhelds made up a massive quantity of sales and had an effective monopoly.