Iwata responds to region locking questions

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the_dengle said:

Mummelmann said:

No sense in arguing against Iwata's reasoning since it has no root in reality and, as others may have pointed out, none of this seems to bother Sony or Microsoft. You don't make as much money as Nintendo have through the years on such (relatively) low sales without making an effort to maximize profits.

Nintendo has never made money during a period of relatively low sales.

The only period of relatively low sales in their history was the period from 2011 to present day. Their sales were not relatively low during the N64 era, as this is when Pokemon was at the height of its popularity, and the top 20 best-selling N64 games were all published by Nintendo with 2.5 million+ sales. Their sales were not relatively low during the GameCube era when the GBA and DS (two platforms that were not region-locked "to maximize profits") were lining their pockets.

Also, all companies make every effort to maximize profits. Some companies are just better at it than others.

Actually you make a good point here in the beginning that looking at strictly hardware sales isn't going to tell you enough about their sales.  Hardware isn't really where the profit comes from anyway.