Will Nintendo have their handheld throne contested again? Or is Vita the last..

[Otakumegane]

RolStoppable said:

Otakumegane said:

kupomogli said:
Once the Vita gets a price drop, it will sell and we'll see more support for the system.

Even if the Vita doesn't sell amazing numbers, as long the system doesn't lose money for Sony, then it could potentially be looked at as a success. Look at Nintendo with the N64 and Gamecube. As poorly as the two consoles sold, Nintendo didn't lose money with them, they just didn't gain nearly as much as they would have liked.

So long as they don't lose money from the Vita being released, I think they'll release another handheld, same as Nintendo released other consoles.

Pretty sure Nintendo actualy lost $$ on GC, just that it was nicely masked by immense GBA profits.

No, the GC was profitable. The hardware was occasionally sold for a minor loss, but Nintendo pushed out plenty of million sellers which easily made up for it. On top of this there were controllers and memory cards which had high profit margins. Since the GC had many good multiplayer games and since memory cards were mandatory, Nintendo sold a good amount of accessories.

People tend to overestimate Nintendo's profits from handhelds. A lot of people would probably tell you that the DS generated more profits than the Wii, but that's not the case. DS hardware clearly outpaced Wii hardware, but there isn't much of a difference in software sales. Games for home consoles sell for a higher price and thus have a higher profit margin per copy. And there are of course sales of accessories, something that barely exists for handheld gaming. The Wii got the DS beat in terms of profit.

I see, thank you for correcting my negligence.