What is the Sales Threshold for a Home Console NOT to be a failure?

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UshiotheOmega said:

daredevil.shark said:
PS3 sold 80+ million copies and lost $3 billion. On the contrary GameCube sold 20+ million and made money. I will call GameCube a success. At the end of the day it's balance sheet that determines success.

 

The gamecube made money? or Nintendo made money with the GBA and DS while the GC was on sale?

 

Both, but the talking point that the "GC made more money than the PS2" has always been false. That refers to Nintendo's sales of its handhelds during the same time.

 

Which is why its hard to determine a consoles success by a balance sheet. Even the Nintendo, the least complex of the game companies, has multiple products.