Did the dreamcast really fail because of sales?

[Teeqoz]

bigtakilla said:

Teeqoz said:

 

So you mean on hardware alone? If so, then they aren't making a profit on hardware (at least they weren't in 2014). The reason a lot of people think/thought the Wii U was being sold for a profit in 2014 was because of a misinterpretation of what Iwata said. In actuality, what was said was that no losses would be incurred that fiscal year, because they had already manufactured sufficient consoles to satisfy demand for 2014, and thus the loss had been incurred in previous quarters. I'll give you some sources when I get back home to my computer in a few minutes.

 

Now, the Wii U may later on have gotten to the point were hardware is being sold at a profit, but we don't know, and Nintendo hasn't said anything about it.

Either way Amiibo, a successful handheld, and software sales have probably helped Nintendo far more than however many more consoles the Dreamcast outsold the Wii U by. Pretty sure they were being sold at a pretty big loss too (Dreamcasts).

 

Yes, but I was talking about only Wii U hardware, and wether that was profitable, not if Nintendo as a whole, or even the Wii U as a whole was/is profitable.