I sincerely doubt that the PSX and PS2 were less profitable than Gamecube and N64 based solely on unit sales and software sales.

They always add gameboy sales to N64 and GC. That way Nintendo always "win";)

thank you, they are cherries!  And for resolutions, you would bitch about a difference of a few pixels that I labeled in the open.

So Wii U went from no 3rd party to Wii U having relevant 3rd party support?  I'm glad you are starting to see.  We can agree that 3rd party support could be better.  As for that I need only qoute the legend johnlucas

"If the 3rd parties ever got square behind Nintendo with support, they lose their political leverage in the business.
Microsoft's & Sony's platforms are the vehicles for their political leverage & with the XBox One you got a taste of things to come should they run this industry outright.

VGChartz's Game Database tells the Absolute Truth: Nintendo RULES the best-selling games of all-time.
You have to be the biggest of the biggest 3rd party titles like Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty to even be seen near the top of that list. And that doesn't even start until #16 with PS2's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That means the Top 10 of all time are all Nintendo (And the Top 50/Top 100 are MOSTLY Nintendo).
Jak & Daxter, Killzone are nice. Forza Motorsport & Fable are decent. But NOTHING Sony's & Microsoft's 1st party teams put out can compare to the power of Nintendo's 1st party. The closest they ever got was with Gran Turismo & Halo.
One series a piece from them vs. many from Nintendo.
Nintendo sold you homework, called it Brain Age, & sold 20 million a piece EASY. Hardly no big graphics on that game.
They came up an exercising routine, packed in a bathroom scale that also measures balance, called it Wii Fit & sold 40 million altogether. Limited graphics there too.
Don't even get me started on Pokémon. It's so big it's got its own company within Nintendo.
Look for 'The Pokémon Company' on the label.
In order for the 3rd parties to even see Nintendo's milestones reliably they have to sell on multiple platforms.
Nintendo sells on just one: their own.
And how much marketing money goes into hyping up these games to make these sales compared to Nintendo's marketing?

Don't think the 3rd parties aren't aware of this. Don't think it doesn't horrify them. They're scared of Nintendo. Absolutely in fear. The gaming press promotes Sony's & Microsoft's platforms out the wazoo while usually throwing shade on anything Nintendo produces. They write the hierachies of platforms on the front page often writing Nintendo's last in the lineup. Gamestop puts Nintendo merchandise to the back of the store in a smaller space. And it doesn't matter. Nintendo still sells. You always hear calls for Nintendo to "get out of the hardware business", to "start making software for the other consoles like Sega", to "go handheld only". When they have absolutely no need to with the resources they have. The 3rd party needs this kind of noise to stand a chance."

I still expect Nintendo to end up with the most profits in the end, but wayy wayy down compared to the 5th or 6th gen.

As for Sony and Microsoft, they'll have a better time than the 7th gen, but not too much better. Sony has the Vita weighing them down and I'm not too sure that the Kinect will help the Xbone much with all the negativeness toward the NSA and spying and that lately.

Well that's a silly perspective isn't it.

do you understand how markets work at all?  If people are buying something and the company is making a profit it's because they chose to buy it.  Nintendo isn't tricking anyone, they have been the same type of company for decades and people know exactly what they are buying.

What you mean to say is that it's not good FOR YOU.  You really think you are speaking for everyone while you talk about your cutting edge graphics that you want so badly?

I didn't say that did I? They will definitely profit, I'm waiting to see what the new average is for Nintendo profits though.

They're not selling en masse (yet?) software is half of what it was on DS and the profit margin on them both is so tiny.

i guess we'll have to wait and see, 3DS finally releasing its best title and japan gets MH4 as well. 3DS/2DS will definitely give nintendo huge profits off both hardware and software this year. WiiU should do decent holiday, we dont kno how that will play out yet

Damn, Bayonetta looks so good.