zorg1000 on 14 December 2016
It needs to sell well enough to provide an ecosystem where games can sell well and make Nintendo adequate profits.
Install base is not a direct measure of whether or not a platform is successful. A device that sells 30 million and earns the company a few billion in profit is far more successful than a device that sells 100 million and causes the company to lose a few billion.
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