No, I did not contradict myself.

Design focus mirrors demographic range, as you make your games to target the audience you want to reach. Infamous does target the same kind of gamers as Gears; 13-40 year old Western males.

What ever that is, it sure isnt making a profit on their wildly successful console sectors in Sony's case...

They are still miles ahead of the Wii U. I don't even consider the Wii U a true 8th generation console. More like 7.5 generation console :P

Is the wiiu really failing?  I feel like it will turn a profit in the long run and Xbox One likely will be profit negative. It might end up being similar to the Ios/android race. Android has an 80% market share worldwide however Apple is making the lions share of profits. So would you label the IOS line of phones to be failing simply based on hardware unit share?

Comparing Wii U to the iPhone? Nice.

I don't consider the Xbox One or PS4 current gen consoles based on the fact that the 7th generation was extra long and spanned 2 normal generations and yet when they released these systems they still only had the regular leap in power. Wiiu is a gen 7.5 console, xbone and ps4 are 8th gen and pc is already in the 9th gen using the type of logic you are using. This is all just using your logic on that power is what determines what gen a console is in however I don't have that view. They are all in the 8th gen. The definition of generation is "the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time". A new generation is about birthing something new and living at the same time as others in that generation. 

I made that comparison to pose a question. What is more relevant to a product being considered successfull hardware unit share or profit?  If the Wiiu ends up selling 25 million hardware units and turns a profit and Xbox one sells 65 million hardware units but loses money is the wiiu a failure and the xbox one a success?

1. The Wii U won't sell that much

2. The E&D division of MS has not taken a loss even with the Xbox One price cuts. If the Xbox One sells 65 million hardware that means that Xbox One sold a ton of software. Xbox has the best tie ratio in the industry and MS knows it.

I think that if Nintendo made a console that was similar to PS4 they would be getting a lot more cross platform support. I can't say how much better 3rd party games would sell but they would certainly sell better than they do right now and more importantly it would take a lot less work to get them running and running well on the system. 3rd party games give or take a few would sell similar to pc games and most games are getting pc versions due to the ease of porting them over to pc. And they are often delayed on pc due to piracy which wouldn't be an issue on wiiu like it is on pc. I think Nintendo really wanted and needed 3rd party games at the beggining on the wiiu becuase it took nintendo some time to get their own content on the system. But i wouldn't say that Nintendo really really cared about 3rd party ports long term. If Nintendo cares about this then they would release hardware which is appealing to 3rd party devs.

There is a lot more than Xbox that goes into MS's e and d division. I can assure you that in the upcoming quarter which includes the price drop microsoft is losing money on the xbox one. Looking at Microsoft's profit in the E and D division to make statements on the success of the Xbox One would be about as relevant as looking at sony's overall losses for insights into how successfull ps4 is.