Offical Sell-in numbers for PS3 - credit to ArmGunar.

[Eagle367]

DonFerrari said:

Eagle367 said:

Actually not at all for Nintendo. Because even in their worst hour, they never stopped giving numbers. So if you crunch in the numbers for all of the 3ds hardware and software and take them out of the equation plus the other stuff ninty spent money on, you can tell how much of it the Wii U was eating up. And have you seen the charts of Sony when PS3 was selling Vs now? And the same for Ninty with Wii U. Ninty was always close to 0 with little losses while Sony's gap was huge. Ninty are just better at managing their business when their consoles fail than Sony are, which is why we're lucky they are so good at marketing their consoles. Otherwise PS and possibly Sony would die out. If you want to actually dig deep, it is not only possible but also probable that you can prove or disprove my hypothesis.

When PS3 costed (lost) 200 per console, selling 80+M will be a much bigger loss than the 15M sold by WiiU.

Still, people will have a lot of good games and follow through to PS4 because of it, while WiiU wants to be forgotten.

That would be an effective argument had the switch not sold well because of the Wii U or people who bought the Wii U loving it as a console. It's a much smaller group of people than the PS3 and of course not a 100% love it but still ultimately as we are discussing business and sales, I think Ninty's strategy was much more effective than Sony's. Ninty lost less money, recovering in a couple years time what they lost, showed they still can make a successful console, is recovering third party support which it lost, gained a lot of trust and goodwill from the indies during the Wii U era and still produced quality games which the fans adored and not all of them are yet on the switch for a bigger audience. Hell some games just can't be as good as they were on the Wii U like zombiU or Rayman legends. It was a dark time for sure but never a 100% negative time. The wiiU taught ninty some really important lessons and helped Ninty in some subtle ways which people fail to acknowledge.

But ultimately the past is behind us and we can look back at both consoles as something that people who bought them adored for the most part while their successors are huge successes for the companies, console gaming and gamers alike. I hope the console marker stays strong especially against the upcoming streaming competition and PS5, neXtbox and switch 2(probably?) are all successful consoles that improve our gaming experience and deliver awesome games