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theprof00 on 05 April 2013
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J_Allard said:
theprof00 said:
J, the n64 was not a tremendous success for Nintendo. Their profits during the n64 generation were coming directly from the gameboy color released in 1998 and pokemon. Looking at the graphs is misleading if you think n64 was massively successful for them.
Even if they made 100$ profit per console, that's only 3.3B in profit @33m consoles sold.....
The GBC sold 120m IN THE SAME TIMEFRAME.....
n64 1996-2002
GBC 1998-2002

Now look at the graph again, 1996FY, 1997FY Wompwomp
Now look at 1998FY up to 2002FY- where the graph starts leveling even again.

Do your research man.

lol @ "only 3.3 billion". Some of you are just precious. Only on this forum could someone say the N64 was a cursed console like the Saturn and PS3 and yet when presented with factual evidence that proves otherwise, still try to argue about it. The graph and numbers speak for themselves. You guys can create stipulations and theories about it all you want. Bottom line is Nintendo saw massive profits during its lifespan and you look at the graph, the couple years prior to GBC were just as good for them as the years after. Now look at the PS3 era Sony line. Clearly the same thing is going on LOL. Like I said, precious.

lol @ "only 3.3 billion".

Simple math proves you wrong. Have you considered that 3.3B seems a little high? I'd venture you haven't. And why not, for someone who cares nothing about the facts, it makes you happy. Let's take another look at what I was talking about before with the GBC and pokemon.

GBC released in 1998, selling 120m in 4 years.
n64 released in 1996, selling 33 million in 6 years.
Game boy advance released in 2001 (numbers are probably around 20-30m until end of fy02.
1998 saw the release of pokemon red and green, and then blue and yellow shortly after.
1999 saw pokemon gold and silver and crystal
2002 (the year n64 discontinued) saw pokemon ruby, sapphire.

Someone can find the numbers there for those games and the other spinoffs, but the total sales during this period is likely something around 70m+ games.

So we have 4 numbers:
120m gbc
33m n64
15m GBA
70m pokemon games

Nintendo made 6B between 1996 and 2002

Now tell me again how confident you are that n64 even contributes a drop toward that total.
Pokemon figuring in 5m per game cost (highballing that by quite a bit) @~10games 50m$ cost, at revenues of 25$ (lowballing that) per game, by itself, probably contributes about 1.7B of that 6.
Then we have GBC, even at 25$ profit per console would be 3B of the remaining 4.3.
1.3B left to split between GBA and n64, both sold similar numbers of consoles. The split is likely n64 900m, gba 400m,

 

Again, I'm not dissing nintendo. I'm dissing you're crazy ideas.