Nintendo "laughed their assess off" when Microsoft tried to acquire the company in 2000

[Dulfite]

sales2099 said:

Dulfite said:

True, but one of the ramifications of my point is I'm sure many gamers chose the Xbox because it was priced at a loss. If it was priced at a profit like the GameCube was, it is a certainty it would have sold less than it did, perhaps even less than the GameCube. 

See I just realized something. This criteria isn’t universal. Like most people will look at Ps3 and 360 and say the PS3 won out in the end right? But going by your criteria 360 was considerably more profitable. I wish I could apply your standard elsewhere but thing is people have their own criteria. Point being many of us see through the lens of the gamer and not that if the business.  

Seeing through the lens of a gamer is valid, nothing wrong with that! But these are businesses and at the end of the day the only thing any mega corporation really cares about is $$$ and having more of it in the bank than you did when you started a venture.