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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo "laughed their assess off" when Microsoft tried to acquire the company in 2000

Jumpin on 12 January 2021
HoangNhatAnh said:
Metallox said:

Gears games have substantially changed, bud, and for the worse. 

Your Melia avatar would have never been existed if MS really got Nin at that time, you know.

Jumpin said:

Gamecube also lost Nintendo a lot of money. But Nintendo could still turn a small profit thanks in part to the booming handheld business from Gameboy, GBA, GBA SP, and DS during that time.

Jumpin said:

No it didn't. If Gamecube made a profit, Nintendo would have made significantly more money than it did. The home console business cut heavily into the profits turned by the handheld division.

Bold 1 & 2: GC helped Nin making more profit than Sony in 6th gen.

Your post shows Nintendo's profits, not Gamecube's. Nintendo at the time generated most of its revenue from handhelds despite most of the operational expenses going toward home consoles.

Your chart shows profits collapsing by 45% in 2001 when Nintendo's handheld sales were drastically increasing. It didn't recover until the release of the Wii. Now why might that be?

Showing unusually low profits for a handheld boom indicates the home console business was losing money.



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HoangNhatAnh on 12 January 2021
Jumpin said:
HoangNhatAnh said:

Your Melia avatar would have never been existed if MS really got Nin at that time, you know.

Jumpin said:

Gamecube also lost Nintendo a lot of money. But Nintendo could still turn a small profit thanks in part to the booming handheld business from Gameboy, GBA, GBA SP, and DS during that time.

Bold 1 & 2: GC helped Nin making more profit than Sony in 6th gen.

Your post shows Nintendo's profits, not Gamecube's. Nintendo at the time generated most of its revenue from handhelds despite most of the operational expenses going toward home consoles.

Your chart shows profits collapsing by 45% in 2001 when Nintendo's handheld sales were drastically increasing. It didn't recover until the release of the Wii. Now why might that be?

Showing unusually low profits for a handheld boom indicates the home console business was losing money.

GameCube era: 2001 - 2006, hardware sale = bad, software sale = good, combined with GBA = better than ps2 profit.

PS2: 2001 - 2006, sold more than both combined but lower profit than Nintendo overall.

Without GC software profit combined with GBA profit, i doubt Nintendo could make much more profit than Sony ps2.

Also, about losing money, nothing from Nin (including Wii U mess) can come close to the disaster of ps2 - ps3, basically all ps2 profits were for nothing.