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

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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.  

The criteria also fails to take into account the next gen started while the X360 was still in the lead, so people going by the "it sold more in the end" metric are not taking gens into account... or the fact the 360 went out of the spotlight earlier by MSFTs own deeds.