Mr. Iwata comment on the idea of going multi-platform.

[Screamapillar]

Suke said:

MohammadBadir said:

Screamapillar said:
Nintendo can't do any worse than the GameCube, right? That system barely scraped out of the generation with 22 million consoles lifetime. It served only the very hardcore of the Nintendo loyalists, with sequels to N64 games.

Surely GameCube was the low point, and I very much doubt that Wii U will come close to doing that poorly in the market when we look back at Wii U's performance in 2017.

Fun fact:

Nintendo's GC (worst selling Nintendo home-console) and Nintendo's GBA (worst selling Nintendo handheld to be deemes as "successful" together made more money than Sony's PS2(best selling home console of all time) in the GC-PS2 era.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo is safe. even if the WiiU will never take off (I'm sure it will), they can rely on their huge amount of money in the bank, and the 3DS to keep them afloat for the gen.

O_o ....really....I never knew that :L

I'm well aware that GameCube was a profitable business for Nintendo.  Even though GameCube was sold at a loss for a certain period of time, they were selling enough software at $49 that they were making some money from it.  GBA was extremely successful, of course.  40 million install base just in the US.  GBA made NIntendo tons and tons of money.  Back then, NIntendo handhelds were cheap to make, and since their handheld games were so primitive back then, they made a lot more money on software as well.