with all fairness, those include the profits from handhelds as well. during the gamecube era there was also the GB advance which sold 80 million units. i would say most of their profits from that time period is due to the GBA not the GC

And it was out way before VC came out.  I owned it for Gamecube.  Voice acting was horrible, story was just... weird.

Gameplay?  All sorts of fun.   Characters with different "class" abilties like mortar, destructable buildings, line of site based gameplay.

I think  i got it at target or biglots or something for like 2 bucks.

It's why i was so pumped for VC, i'd seen the combat work before.

Yes because we all want is Master Chief, Mario, and Sac Boy in every genre of game we play for the next 30 years with no new characters or worlds to explore. It makes sick to my stomach that people believe this but bitch about COD every single fucking year. Thank you Miyamoto you pretty much summarized why I don't like Nintendo and their games and never will

he's half wrong. New gamplay mechanics with the same characters, universe, and stories isn't a new game either.

Game Boy Advance had been more than profitable. It was kicking ass in the market. The Game Boy brand in general ruled the world from 1989-2005 or so.

But yes, the notion that Nintendo was ever "close to bankruptcy" is incredibly false. They're not Sega. Perhaps if Wii had only sold GC type numbers for the second system in a row, maybe they would have had some cause for concern. But there's no way they were ever close to bankruptcy.

Well yeah, but as people often tend to forget handhelds are gaming system.  In otherwords, Nintendo's polcies have always worked pretty damn amazing for them... UNTIL like, last year.  

I'd argue that's because the Wii U and in a lesser respect 3DS actually went away from established Nintedo strategy when it comes to hardware design.

Where did you get those numbers? I was checking sources to back up my statements, but I only found that their profits were cut in half thanks to Gamecube. Gameboy helped Nintendo a lot.

I see what he means, Mario is a franchise but many of the games in it are like their own IPs with Luigi's Mansion, the RPGs, Kart and Sport titles, if these games had different characters people would see them as separate franchises. It's a case of whether you only see new franchises as new IPs although in the interview he wasn't actually talking about IPs.

I believe it was made originally on Neogaf.  The numbers come directly from each companies financial stateents.

SM64 is more exploration. SMG is more action like in old 2D Mario games.