What should Nintendo have done instead of Wii U?

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Slownenberg said:

Jumpin said:

I doubt the GameCube was anywhere near profitable. In those years Nintendo was profiting off of its monstrously successful handheld industry, not the failing GameCube.

Gamecube was absolutely profitable. Don't equate sales with profit. Gamecube was profitable while (I believe) PS2 was not. Nintendo sold Gamecube at a profit and obviously made profit off their games. Just because it only sold about 20 million systems doesn't mean it wasn't profitable, it was just far less profitable than their better selling systems. No aspect of the Gamecube pipeline was unprofitable.

Do you have any proof of this?