Point of being Biased and rude. He Just mad cuz 3DS gonna stomp the competition :P

yeah sorry bout that. i have no tact when im tested. I gave all the proof i could. It's not much though I'll say it's reasonable. Attach rate, hardware profit, and (gc/gba) making almost a bil a year.. all indicates that the gc hardware did alright. That's the best I got. But i did bring it.

Maybe. But it is good to know that I can go to any other thread and shit it with a comment like that and nothing will happen to me.

Well the gamer in me hasn't felt compelled to buy a nintendo system in a while, but I'm not averse to buying some Nintendo stocks.

Their equity has shrunk a ton as a percentage of what it used to be, but they only had one year of loss, and a fairly small one at that. They're pretty much guaranteed a decent profit this year, and obviously for the rest of the gen.

That being said, with the tablet CPU and lack of Blu-ray/Cell equivalents Sony is pushing this time around, I feel like this is the gen they're finally cashing in. One as well since according to Pachter, they're selling at Profit day one after just one software and Live subscription purchase.

Edit: quoted the wrong post entirely

Considering the 3ds launched just over 2 years ago and according to nintendo financial statements they've made a loss over the last 2 financial years. So so far this generation (the 3ds generation) theyve still in loss mode

I doubt they will make the most profit this generation I think the order will be

1. Microsoft

2. Nintendo / Sony cant seperate as the ps4 hasnt yet launched yes the hype is large now but in 6 months who knows

nintendo posted profits already and don't you learn from history! If something happens over and over there's no reason to believe it won't happen again. False promises and false hope always leave you disappointed. Without a record to run on it's all just wishful thinking.

Cool, thanks.

Interesting, but actually belittles my view of the GameCube even further. If they didn't make a real profit (I guess software still put the whole in black), the GBA sure was madly profitable when Nintendo made more money off the 6th gen than Sony with their massive PS2.

Naturally not completely irrelevant. Sony and Microsoft also don't make gaming systems for shits and giggles.

They're in it to make money, no matter how big they are. Even more important for Sony, since PlayStation is one of their bigger ventures now. If their gaming efforts aren't making momey, they as a company, or at least that specific division, could just as much be in trouble as Nintendo could. They would definitely not be happy, and neither would shareholders. Of course, one could argue that Sony and Microsoft could tolerate bad performance of a division because they have secondary agenda's (pushing DVD/Blu-ray, penetrating the living-room in this case), which lessen the blow a bit as it's softened by potential better performance of the other divisions because of it.

At the end of the day, isn't profit REALLY the only thing that matters..? At least if we are to look through the lense of capitalism which us Westerners seem to love so much.. Nintendo wins where it matters most, in profit.

What does weak hardware have to do with success? Also, Nintendo has CLEARLY shown they don't need third party supoprt, as they recieved little more than shovelware for the Wii, which managed to be a sales phenomenon, and the Gamecube support was near non existant and they STILL made a profit.