Xoj said:
tarheel91 said:
Xoj said:
Naum said:
PeteyPeeps said:
nintendo lost money on the gamecube ... sega lost money on the dreamcast ... Sega stopped hardware ... if nintendo stopped hardware ... i would have loved a sega/ninendo console, best of both worlds
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I think they almost earned as much profit on the Gamecube as Sony did on the PS2.
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actually no, they made almost as ps2 with GBA+gamecube.
gba sold 80 milllion gamecube+22 gamecube. and their first party
also that was by the time ps2 was 100-120 million
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Is this guy... Is this guy serious?
Devices sold =/= profit.
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i didnt say that? i did say they had the GBA to fall off on profit.
it wasn't because of the gamecube.
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They were talking about profit, and you used the number of devices sold as evidence for why Sony/Nintendo made profit. Just because you sell a lot of consoles does not mean you made a lot of money. If you sell them at a loss, that hurts profit. Selling a lot of consoles that just break even is worse than selling much less for a good profit. That's why you saw stuff like this back in 2005:
