The strongest and more expensive console will win this generation, it never happened before.

[Samus Aran]

Torillian said:

Samus Aran said:

How exactly do you win a console generation if you sell your console at a $200 loss? Wii U would outsell xbone if it was sold at $100, but Nintendo wouldn't win anything by doing that. It could bankrupt the company.

We know Nintendo's profits and we also have enough reports on how much money Sony lost on the PS3. Xbox360 was second in the last generation.

You win by having the highest marketshare in the console market for that generation.  That's what everyone else understands winning a console generation to mean.  if the company goes broke winning that generation you can make the debate that it wasn't worth it, but they still would have won that console generation based on the only metric that we have to measure these things by.  

What reason is there to base something on conjecture instead of facts?

Because judging something purely by marketshare makes no sense, it ignores too many things.

Nintendo is a gaming only company that has to split its resources into two because they have to support two different platforms. Therefore I think it's unfair to just look at one of their platforms.

I see it like this:

GB -SNES/N64 (the GB is the only Nintendo HH that spanned two generations of consoles instead of only one).

GBA - GC

DS - Wii

3DS - Wii U

We have more metrics to measure things by, they just take more effort to collect and comprehend.

Can you honestly say the original xbox was a bigger success story than the GC?