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naruball on 28 December 2014
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archer9234 said:
naruball said:
archer9234 said:

That never matters to people. The GC will be always remembered as a failure. Even though it made profit. People don't care about logic :P HUGE NUMBERS MEAN ALL! God forbid Nintendo could keep making consoles forever. Never have 3rd party again. And still make profit. That is inherently wrong somehow.


I agree, people don't always care about logic, but let's use some logic and try to find a source that proves that Gamecube made a profit. Or that WiiU has made a profit so far (not right now, but overall). While we're at it, can you tell me how exactly you know that Ninty did not consider Gamecube a failure? A failure does not mean sell x number of units, make $5, etc. It means the company has certain expectations and the product fails to meet them, even massively. 

If you don't wanna address all the points, please at least provide that source that I've yet to see ever posted. I, like you, like logic too. 

Here's another issue. Nintendo never split the profit numbers of the GC and GBA. They just combined them. We'll never know what the GC sold alone. But they did make a profit the whole time of that generation. The issue relys with: Does it matter if the GBA helped or not? The graph definatly shows the GC would of beaten the Xbox. People can argue that Nintendo had an advantage. But nothing prohibited Sony or MS from making handhelds in those years. It be like bitching that the taller person on a basketball team is beating the smaller one. You do better at picking a person that can deal with it. Train the person, Or higher a taller person too. Plus, the PS2 sold 120+ (at the time of 2006) million units. And only goes over 5 million boosted income. VS GC 21 and 81 GBA. 

I'm sorry but your analogy doesn't make much sense. 

You didn't say "Ninty beat Sony in 2006" to which I would have replied, "where's the evidence?". You said "The GC will be always remembered as a failure. Even though it made profit"

You made a claim that simply cannot be supported by evidence. When you do find a reliable source that shows that Gamecube alone overall made a profit, then you can continue making that statement. At the moment, we simply don't know and it seems to me that the logical thing to do is to refrain from such unfounded claims. You can, however, say that Ninty was overall profitable during the Gamecube's lifetime/that generation. We all know that.