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thismeintiel on 19 August 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
cheesecake said:
thismeintiel said:

Because when the PS3 was at its absolute worst AND hadn't even launched in EU, yet, it wasn't performing as poorly as the WII U is.  Then you have the fact that the Wii U is now confirmed to be the cheapest entry price for this gen (by $100), but that still isn't peaking much interest from the gaming masses.  I think what we are going to see in the future, in terms of sales, is another N64/Gamecube for Nintendo, with sales ~30M-40M.  Not God awful, but it surely isn't going to be winning the gen.

yeah, we'll see.

NIntendo made the most profit in the GC era btw

Yeah, and the most profit still doesn't translate to higher marketshare. If memory serves me correctly, they also made the most profit the gen before, which, again, meant very little to units sold.

Plus, when people say this, they always seem to forget that Nintendo sells handhelds, as well.  The vast majority of profit that Nintendo made during the GC era was from the GBA and the first couple of years of DS sales.  It had very little to do with the GC, itself.  In fact, if anything, the GC probably lost them money.  I mean, it makes sense when you see that they launched at $199 to compete with the PS2 and within 6 months had to drop the price to $149.  Then, in less than 2 years from launch, they dropped the price to $99.  At the very best, they probably broke even.  Maybe made a slight profit when you add in SW profits.