Nintendo actually made a greater profit than Sony every single quarter of the generation with the exception of Q4 2005 when Sony made an astonishing 575 million dollars, and Nintendo only managed 535 million. Sony Computer Entertainment's highest quarter was Q4 2003 where they made 659 million, but Nintendo made 697 million that quarter.

Nintendo's lowest Gemcube era profits came in Q2 2005, where they made only 34 million, Sony in comparison had lost 54 million in the same quarter.

Now that Nintendo is popular, their lowest earning quarter in the Wii era is Q1 2007 where they made only 495 million, Sony lost 914 million that quarter.

Nintendo made nearly 5.6 billion in their last fiscal year which is more than the sum of the black ink numbers SCE recorded in the entire history of the playstation brand, plus the black ink of Microsoft's Xbox division in the entire history of the Xbox brand.

D: Oh shit he's serious guys siko will retire the entire gaming industry if Nintendo stops making consoles! Gaming will be domed!

if nintendo gets brought out by sony or microsoft i will go where nitendo goes, and its hard to buy nintendo since there an very expensive company to buy

  I don't think that would have at all been a likely scenario considering their plans for the Wii existed during the N64 era; they were going to release the system; it just came a generation late. Even though they had a bad marketshare, Nintendo was the most profitable company in the industry by far. When taking into account a year where they had a dominant market share: Last year alone Nintendo exceeded Sony computer entertainment and Microsoft's combined total profits, and that is ignoring their red ink quarters.