| mountaindewslave said: whats hilarious is you talk of how the Gamecube flopped yet Nintendo made wayyyyyyyy more money in the Gamecube/GBA era than Sony did from the PS2 (i.e. the best ever selling system) I just think that indicates how it is not always relevant who is selling the most in terms of quantity, sometimes it is completely irrelevant. Nintendo will be less concerned with being the top video game seller than keeping costs low and maintaining sales to a certain degree- the real question is what numbers they need to maintain their success granted obviously the last year or 2 have been tough compared with the past. Nintendo will be fine, they are not a company who likes to spend much money but if it comes down to that they can do whatever the want in terms of developing a console for multiple generations. they are bound to find the right balance. the Wii U is their first true failure in quite a while and in its same generation they have a quite successful handheld so it's not so bad |
Didn't Sony made massive amounts of money with the PS2 though? And we're just under the impression it made less than Nintendo because they spent most of it on the development of the Cell?
Then the GBA allowed Nintendo to "catch up", so to speak, the GC probably made some profit, but not much. I THINK that's what happened.
