| Vena said:
I'm actually looking at older numbers but its impossible to disentangle the NGC from the GBA without some presumptions on splits of profits. Oh well, its not a big deal. The NGC was still sold at a profit and had high software retention rate so it was positive, its just impossible to find out how positive. The WiiU and 3DS are the first time when Nintendo launched with loss-leaders and the pain has shown over two fiscal years. Fortunately both are now cheaper to make than to sell by a decent margin on both ends. |
Bold: Was it though? NGC had better hardware overall than PS2, which always led me to think it was more expensive to make. 2nd, they dropped the price to 99 at some point, and most of its life I remember being cheaper than PS2 as well. So there you have it: more expensive hardware+cheaper console=less revenues me thinks. Maybe it managed to be profitable considering the standards Nintendo saw for it, but not profitable compared with PS2 (I don't trust that lazy chart around the web btw, it says little and the little it says hasn't been confirmed).
Underlined: definitely higher than PS2 exclusives, but still lower when compared with overall SW retention.
