Nintendo Tops 750 Million Hardware

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siebensus4 said:

Dulfite said:

This isn't updated through now, at least anywhere I can find, but this should give you an idea of how Nintendo dominates the other two in profit. Also this is why people say Nintendo could have like 5-7 Wii U level disasters before running out of money. They are a very conservative company on expenses, whereas the other two spend like crazy.

Wow, I wasn't aware of that Nintendo made more profit with 21M GameCube than Sony with 155M PS2. Hmm, well GBA should be included... but nevertheless... wow.

I prefer to compare the GC + GBA years to the PS3 + PSP years.  Both were "lean years" for home consoles while they had profitable handhelds.  In terms of hardware sales it looks like this:

GBA 81.5M
PSP 81.1M

GC 21.7M
PS3 87.4M

Both companies had profitable handhelds that sold about 81M.  On the home side Sony sold far more PS3's than Nintendo ever sold on Gamecubes.  And yet during the Gamecube years Nintendo is still making healthy profits, while Sony is bleeding red all throughout the PS3 years.  

The reason why Sony usually has a large market share on the home side is that they need to do this just to have any sort of healthy business.  They can't really even survive in the long term unless they keep winning most of the time.  Nintendo, on the other hand, is not so desperate to dominate in market share.  They will be profitable even in third place.  But when they actually do take first place...then their investors are so happy that they roll around naked in piles of money.  I mean, $5.5B in profit in 2009.  That is over 5 times the profit of Sony's best year.