Ultimate Consoles Showdown: 2021 |Completed|

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yo33331 said:

ShadowLink93 said:

But at that time PS2 was just about crossing 100m, i think it sold 50 million or more after PS3 hit store shelves. No doubt everyone and their dog thought Playstation would dominate again but it's weird that people also thought that Xbox would easily beat Nintendo to second place like it was a foregone conclusion. Also even though the Gamecube v Xbox was close the consensus at the time was the Xbox was a Success and the Gamecube a monumental failure but the final sales were around 24m to 21.7m, Xbox won by just a couple of million. 

Well you could say this about the next gen .. XB1 vs Wii U. XB1 win by a lot.. no doubt.

In consoles sold, sure, but not necessarily in profits. Nintendo never cut Wii U price, so they made profit off each unit, plus a huge amount of software sales were their own games where they made more of the cut. Microsoft, during that generation, had few first party games, so the third party ones that were pushing the system, they weren't making as much of each game sold as Nintendo.

I'm sure whatever they are getting now is a lot closer to Nintendo since they own so many more games for this gen.