Nintendo have not made an operating profit overall this generation.

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zorg1000 said:

potato_hamster said:

I really wish more people on this site would agree.

I understand why people like the concept of defined generations, it makes comparisons easier but they are all over the place.

For example, Gameboy could be defined as a dual-generation device having released in 1989 & getting replaced in 2001. And where does Dreamcast fit in? It released basically right between PS1/N64/Sat & PS2/GC/XB.

You could argue that the Gameboy spans three generations. It was the primary handheld console from the existance of the NES to the SNES to the N64. The beginning/end of generations are completely arbitrary.