It has begun - Wii U is doomed.

[Mazty]

superchunk said:

Mazty said:

mushroomboy5 said:

N64 was quite successful and profitable, it didn't beat the ps in terms of console sales but it had many 1st/2nd party games that sold in the multi millions...even the gamecube was profitable for nintendo to a degree, in that nintendo's games sold well for it, they didn't over manufacture the console, and it was cheap to produce. So, yeah, both consoles made money for nintendo even if they didn't dominate their respective generations. It's not always about the amount of consoles sold after all.

How exactly are you measuring success if you are not comparing rival console sales? Also are you considering net or gross profit? You seem to be ignoring R&D costs if you think selling a small volume of a console counts as success. You also seem to be setting the bar for success very low if you think that simply selling 20+ million consoles is a success when the opposition is selling x4 that number. 

Either way that Nintendo cycle picture is just a complete lie as neither the GC or N64 "printed money". 

Nintendo made more money on their hardware during those generations that Sony or MS did in their games divisions respectively. So yes, the image still fit those gens... just 10x more for Wii/DS.

Really? Links please, would like to see those figures.