Asriel on 12 October 2014
We wouldn't have the Wii U or 3DS, but we'd still have Nintendo hardware.
As others pointed out, DS and Wii were sold at a profit from launch. Iwata said at the time if Wii didn't work out brilliantly, Nintendo would simply go back to the drawing board and get ready to try again. That's what they did with GameCube and it's what they're doing now.
