| Darwinianevolution said: Those numbers always confuse me. How did Sony manage to earn less money than Nintendo when the PS2 sold more than the GBA and the GC combined by so much? Hell, it's not even a small margin, between 2004 and 2006 there's a significant difference in profits. I get that Nintendo's 1st party titles sell really well and are very profitable, but by that much? |
PS2 was sold at a loss in order to have a cheaper price while the development of the PSP and PS3 also ate up costs when it did start to break even, GBA and GC weren't sold at losses and Nintendo has a different licensing structure for software on their platform so the sales on their side were just straight profit in comparison. PSP sold at a loss as well but unlike the PS2 which made up with high software numbers the rampant piracy and homebrew stopped the former doing the same hence why most developers avoided the PSP.
