Next gen hardware totals - Nintendo winning!

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Ka-pi96 said:

Giggs_11 said:
1) Nintendo and Sony have very diferente focuses/strategy when defining strategies for both their platforms. Nintendo and Sony gamimg division must be very similar in terms of size i'd say, but while Nintendo spends like 70% of their resources on 3ds and 30% on WiiU and Sony like 95% on PS4, it just doens't seem right to treate both platforms as a separate businesses. Like I've stated many times before there's a very important aspect of this industry that people in this forums love to Forget, and that's the financial aspect, which at the end of the day is what really matters to Nintendo and Sony. But no, around here people only care about units sold;

It's not that we forget, it's that we really couldn't care less. The majority of people on this forum as well as any other gaming forum are not shareholders so profit means absolutely nothing to them.

That works both ways. Why should units sold mean anything to non shareholders? The thing is, you can't really separate profitablility from units sold, they're very very related with each other.

But Yeah, I get what you're saying and agree that making the units sold comaprison on its own has its usefuness. It's just I also don't think disregarding completly the financial aspect of the discussion all the time is right. Specifically for the matter the OP brought up.