"Wii U hardware is on par with current gen consoles"

[Train wreck]

 

That is what the defintion of "winning" the generation has been. And it has been universally accepted until this generation when the one who won by that metric was not expected by anyone and was not wanted to win by those who felt had ownership of the industry (the gaming "media" and the "core" gamers).  So other metrics have been adopted to try to create the result that everyone anticipated and wanted for this generation.

These are businesses. To them it is about profit and sales. And there Nintendo has won this generation.

Mike from Morgantown

Headcount & Revenue Growth Microsoft's worldwide headcount and revenue growth for the past 10 fiscal years are summarized below (click headings to sort):
Fiscal Year Ending	Head Count	Net Revenue (US$)	Growth	Net Income (US$)	Growth
June 30, 2011	90,412	$69.94B	12%	$23.15B	23%
June 30, 2010	88,596	$62.48B	7%	$18.76B	29%
June 30, 2009	92,736	$58.44B	-3%	$14.57B	-18%
June 30, 2008	91,259	$60.42B	18%	$17.68B	26%
June 30, 2007	78,565	$51.12B	15%	$14.07B	12%
June 30, 2006	71,172	$44.28B	11%	$12.60B	3%
June 30, 2005	61,000	$39.79B	8%	$12.25B	50%
June 30, 2004	57,086	$36.84B	14%	$8.17B	8%
June 30, 2003	54,468	$32.19B	13%	$7.53B	29%
June 30, 2002	50,621	$28.37B	12%	$5.35B	-28%

 

Im sure youll be hard pressed to find anywhere Nintendo has beat these numbers.  I mean these are businesses. To them it is about profit and sales. And there Microsoft has won this generation.