What is the Sales Threshold for a Home Console NOT to be a failure?

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How much must a home console sell to NOT be a failure?
10 million	7	2.37%
15 million	10	3.39%
20 million	49	16.61%
25 million	25	8.47%
30 million	55	18.64%
35 million	15	5.08%
40 million	22	7.46%
50 million	40	13.56%
80 million	12	4.07%
There are too many variab...	60	20.34%
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fedfed on 29 December 2015

20 mil or whatever WiiU is selling!

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FayeC on 29 December 2015

Its more regional than that. While the Gamecube was a failure everywhere, its safe to say the Xbox and N64 were failures everywhere except north america.

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Roronaa_chan on 29 December 2015

150 million

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McReally on 29 December 2015

I believe Miguel_Zorro has given the only suitable answer to this question.

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LipeJJ on 29 December 2015

Anything above 30m is decent. It might even be considered "good" if the company profits from it.

Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

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jason1637 on 29 December 2015

I say 30m

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midrange on 29 December 2015

Farsala said:
It depends on marketshare and sales not just sales. N64 had over 20% marketshare. Gamecube and Xbox did not. Wii U and vita don't.

30-40m and 20%+ marketshare is decent.

Exactly this. Profitability is a short term win for the company (gamecube), market share is a long term win for the company (PS3)

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ZhugeEX on 29 December 2015

3 factors should be used:

Market share
Profitability
Absolute unit sales

For a broader analysis you can look at the 3 above as well as-

Product lifecycle (delays/availability period/game software release dates)
Customer satisfaction / awareness

If we're talking about the Wii U here, then it's a commercial failure.

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Dulfite on 30 December 2015

It totally depends on the amount of money and time spent on developing, manufacturing, and marketing said device and games for it. Nintendo markets a lot less, has smaller teams, and is overall a far more efficient company than the gaming divisions of Sony and Microsoft (hence their consistency with profit compared to the other two) so they require less to sell in order to be profitable.