happydolphin on 04 April 2012
| Player1x3 said: Wasn't GC the only console that Nintendo was actually loosing money on in its 1st year? |
Yeah, they were loosing money because they had so much to spare their pockets were waaaay loose.
Whether they lost money on the cube in the 1st year or not, long run they made profit off it and its games.
BUT! To be fair, Nintendo made a lot of its gen 6 profits off the GBA and its games. Even so, the gamecube sold a lot of software. Top 3 tie-ratio systems:
| Pos | Platform | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xbox (XB) | 12.16 | 9.20 | 7.32 | 8.33 | 11.01 |
| 2 | PlayStation 2 (PS2) | 12.27 | 10.39 | 9.47 | 8.80 | 10.66 |
| 3 | GameCube (GC) | 10.76 | 9.01 | 6.82 | 8.52 | 9.60 |
Software Totals table (Cube isn't too far behind GBA or PSP given its userbase)
| Pos | Platform | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PlayStation 2 (PS2) | 658.26 | 553.77 | 219.60 | 207.32 | 1,638.95 |
| 2 | PlayStation (PS) | 357.97 | 280.90 | 244.10 | 79.04 | 962.01 |
| 3 | Wii (Wii) | 423.00 | 222.05 | 63.66 | 72.56 | 781.27 |
| 4 | Nintendo DS (DS) | 343.79 | 174.05 | 175.01 | 69.24 | 762.09 |
| 5 | Xbox 360 (X360) | 390.77 | 164.33 | 10.86 | 58.73 | 624.69 |
| 6 | PlayStation 3 (PS3) | 239.90 | 176.07 | 43.96 | 75.78 | 535.71 |
| 7 | Game Boy (GB) | 187.75 | 147.30 | 157.06 | 9.00 | 501.11 |
| 8 | Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) | 228.08 | 42.21 | 225.86 | 3.86 | 500.01 |
| 9 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) | 132.98 | 47.25 | 194.85 | 3.98 | 379.06 |
| 10 | Game Boy Advance (GBA) | 211.81 | 81.84 | 73.10 | 10.66 | 377.41 |
| 11 | PlayStation Portable (PSP) | 103.05 | 62.31 | 66.31 | 42.40 | 274.07 |
| 12 | Xbox (XB) | 191.80 | 65.95 | 3.88 | 9.83 | 271.46 |
| 13 | Nintendo 64 (N64) | 139.31 | 41.00 | 39.75 | 5.00 | 225.06 |
| 14 | GameCube (GC) | 135.02 | 40.00 | 27.54 | 6.05 | 208.61 |
