if nintendo stopped making consoles....

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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

<3 Sega <3 Nintendo

I think they almost earned as much profit on the Gamecube as Sony did on the PS2.

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

Well actually there is no breakdown of profit between GC and GBA so he was incorrect to say that the GC made almost as much profit as the PS2.  However if we combine total profits for Nintendo (i.e. GBA + GC) it's not even close.  There has only been one year since the introduction of the Playstation brand where Sony's gaming division has made more profit than Nintendo and even then it was only by a small margin. 

There is a wonderful table floating around on the VGchartz forums that shows all the figures taken from the respective companies financial reports since the mid 90's but i can't seem to find it at the moment.  Maybe someone else has it bookmarked.