Nintendo having all their games available everywhere a better business than restricting them to a console?

[Soundwave]

spemanig said:

Soundwave said:

Probably because those platforms sell generally better than Nintendo consoles and are widely supported by the third party community, whereas Wii U is a like a house party where only 2 people showed up. 

Though hey, maybe Microsoft should consider going second party to Nintendo and let them helm the Scorpio project and just do the back end stuff (OS Windows stuff, XBox Live, etc.).

But Nintendo makes more money then they do in their gaming divisions. They did last gen, and they did the generation before that. It's only until recently that this has changed. You can chalk that up to handhelds, but the fact remains, so that excuse doesn't hold up at all.

People need to stop confusing revenue with profit. 

Nintendo makes $20-$30 profit for one $50-$60 game, that's probably more than a $300 console, the hardware will inflate the revenue numbers because it's so much more expensive (one system can be the cost of 3-4 games), but games make the majority of the profit.