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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?

He also ignored that GC was 150, a lot cheaper than both PS2 and Xbox and were destroyed in the market... but maybe they had 200 profit per console sold... the logic is very faulty.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."