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

[Eagle367]

paulrage2 said:

DonFerrari said:

Putting Virtua Boy in the comparison doesn't make much sense since it was a basically a total catastrophe.

And sorry, but Nintendo didn't pushed the best they could. They certainly could have sold it much cheaper and increased number of releases by increasing the size of the team.

I actually don't remember anything outstanding they tried to make the sales of WiiU good. It seemed more like they saw early on that the system was going to do bad and just bought their time until they were ready for Switch (which probably couldn't have been released earlier, not only because it also is successor to 3DS, but also that technology for the affordable price wasn't ready yet), similar to Sony that as soon as they saw PSVita couldn't be a success they just let it die (versus PS3 where they done all they could because they thought it was still possible to sell good).

Anyway that isn't much relevant. The point I wanted to explain initially is why PS3 is considered a BIGGER MONEY LOSSER than WiiU. And that had to do with selling 85M consoles with a lot of them being 100-200 loss per sale, versus WiiU more or less selling 15M for break even.

24 million PS3s was sold at loss, the other 63 million was profitable. Sony also did a lot of money with games sold and PS Plus since 2010. Mark Cerny already said that PS4 would never happen if PS3 didn't maked success. WiiU was a total desaster.

Come on don't be that oblivious to the TRUTH. We know playstation division's financials and it did not trend above 0 until the PS4 released(this is wrong info. Lafiel corrected me below this very comment) while with the Wii U, ninty  was a little bit less than zero for 2-3 years and actually a bit above zero then on. The PS3 was a financial disaster while the Wii U was a sales disaster.

In the end ninty decided to not take losses to try to sell their console. That is their philosophy unlike Sony's. It's also the answer to the guy saying ninty didn't do enough. Other than lower price, ninty tried marketing and games while keeping losses at a minimum. Ninty definitely didn't sweep the WiiU under the rug and didn't abandon the Wii U like Sony did vita. That's what's called trying to make people forget. In the end the Wii U was a flawed console that will be remembered by the few that bought it as a very decent console that they enjoyed if nothing else. I know I'll be nostalgic for the Wii U. 

Last edited by Eagle367 - on 01 June 2019