Why would Nintendo make another Console after so many failed attempts?

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Baalzamon said:

ohmylanta1003 said:

The consoles made profit for the company. You are reading into it incorrectly. People are not talking about the company making profit as a whole. People are talking about each individual console making money for Nintendo.

I've yet to find anything indicating the Gamecube (or N64) itself made profits for Nintendo. There is no seperation on whether it was actually the gamecube leading to the profits, or if it was handhelds.

I would wager the majority came from handhelds, or even software, really. But with software, that doesn't at all justify that they should continue selling consoles. After all, they could halt console sales, and release their software on another console (and it would likely still have huge sales).

And how would it make up for the royalty fees it would have to pay to other console manufacturers, the royalty fees lost on sales of third party games (that's the huge one), the profit from controllers and accessories (the other huge one), and the ability to engineer a console and controller that fits its specific vision?

EDIT: Just looked down further and saw that Kim Possible said the exact same thing. This is why I normally read the entire thread before posting.