Why is Nintendo always portrayed as the company deemed to fail?

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Vinniegambini said:

For those who wanted to know, I looked at all the annual reports of Nintendo since the release of Wii and the total profits derived from the 7th gen since '06 is 8.5 Billion US $ o_O

8.5 billion? That is awesome! That is almost 1.5x of Microsoft's quarterly profits! Unbelievable!