Was this gen unwinnable for Xbox?

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Pemalite said:

curl-6 said:

I wouldn't count stuff like say Wind Waker HD or Metroid Prime Remastered as part of the Gamecube ecosystem personally, as by the time they were remade Gamecube was long dead and buried.

There's factors other than just profitability as well; Gamecube saw Nintendo's market share shrink significantly, which is not the mark of successful platform.

The budgets for those games came at a cost during the Gamecube generation, which would have eroded profit margins at the time.

The WiiU added another 2.4~ million copies to Wind Wakers sales and now has rolled into Nintendo's subscription service for recurring revenue... So some of the expenses during the Gamecubes life is being recouped even today.

Marketshare isn't everything, profits are... Because that ultimately dictates support, re-releases, remasters, remakes and sequels in the end.
Microsoft is making more money than Nintendo or Sony and they sell the least amount of hardware... And because of that, they can still justify another console generation.

Gonna disagree there, a platform is a success or not in and of itself, a game from it being remade like 20 years later isn't part of that console. 

Gamecube was outsold 8:1 by its chief competitor, saw Nintendo's marketshare at its lowest point up to that date, and I haven't seen any data to indicate it was profitable.

We're kinda going way off topic here though, as this is a thread about Xbox.