The original post here is terrible. It's hard to tell what's written by IGN and what's your own thoughts :-\

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It's all fixed now with italic. Sorry for the inconvinience :P

I'm shocked that anyone in the world would believe the 360 was more profitable than wii. That's just crazy. And that guy is supposed to be a professional?

And no wonder nintendo's in no hurry to drop the price. If I read that chart right, they are making the most profit in at least a decade.

@ Cliff

Compare de chart between Nintendo and Sony between 2001~2005

I wonder how did they manage to get that amount of profit even with the gamecube poor sales and 100$ price cut.

That is factually wrong. WTF IGN? WTF?

I really want to work for Nintendo, that is just brilliant

Nintendo doesn't sell their hardware at a loss. Sony lost money on each PS2 sold into the consoles third year.

Sorry to break it to you guys, but you have been trolled.  Save your time, and just ignore everything he writes from here on, since he's outright announced he likes to troll.

Way to miss the whole point of the article and dwell on minor details. He was actually talking about how now that it seems like Microsoft (and Sony) might be trying to attract the casuals with Natal and Sony motion, they might be spending less time trying to attract core gamers which opens up more room on the Wii in that regards and could result in more games coming to the system like Fragile, Muramasa, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Madworld, and No More Heroes, that will appeal to gamers that are very putoff with what has so far been the main driving force of the Wii the Wii________ games.

As far as what he was talking about with the profits. If you assume that he was talking about the profits that hc games make on the system, then the Wii could probably be a distant second or even third. The Conduit has so far sold far fewer copies than Halo, Gears, and Killzone and No More Heroes definitely sold less than MGS4 and Uncharted.

But you are right that if you count all the games including the hefty amount of shovelware that crowds all the great games on the storeshelves like Carnival Games and Party Babyz, yeah Wii probably dominates profits with games that most fans of the hc consoles wouldn't want to play anyway.

I agree with the author and hope to see more or at least as many games like Fragile, No More Heroes, and Muramasa flow to the system in the future than games like Carnival Games 2 or even Wii Sports 3.

Sony and M$ aren't giving up on the core. You won't see Gears being a causal game, and you won't see Sony's premier studios working on PS mote, ND and others will still make "proper" games