Nintendo Q2 Earnings October 30th - Results Inside

[TheLastStarFighter]

Anfebious said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

Shadow1980 said:
I still wouldn't call it an outright failure. "Disappointing," maybe, but considering it did about as well as one would expect given the conditions of the sixth generation (when the systems came out, how much they cost, what games they had, and marketing are all factors), the fact that it still made money for Nintendo, and that generation-over-generation software sales barely declined, I'd say it was a mixed bag overall. Had there been no Xbox (and if MS had not bought Bungie, we probably would have seen seven-digit sales figures for the system), it's conceivable that it could have sold over 40 million, but things were what they were.

Iwata publically said that GC was a failure.  He went so far as to say that if Wii was another GC, they would have been done as a console maker.

Is this the article? http://www.1up.com/news/iwata-wii-doesn-outsell-gamecube

That would be the one!  I can remember that vividly from back then, and it's interesting that they delivered.