So game journalists acting as though that's a bad thing are:

1. Dumb or delusional.

2. Lying to make the Wii look bad.

3. Honestly think outselling the competion at lower margin than before is a bad thing.

I would conded the possibility for three, but they don't acknowledge the part about still outselling the competition.

Well, if those figures mean Wii failed, then PS3 crashed and burned, and 360 is just... dead.

Also lol @ the last part of the paragraph in the OP, where the author is talking about Nintendo's horrible "low profits" of $767.8 million XD
... Yes it's not as much as 2008, which broke all records, but come on.
Yeah, Sony and Microsoft are doing much, much better... Oh wait they're not.

"Also lol @ the last part of the paragraph in the OP, where the author is talking about Nintendo's horrible "low profits" of $767.8 million XD"

That's why it's a lie. They make that horrible, and leave out how the other companies, even in whole, have lowered profits.

I think that says it all.

People want to make their arguments -- and ignore facts (Wii outsold other consoles, overall holiday spending level, etc.).

Mike from Morgantown

@ Lord,

"Lowered profits" of the other companies? That's an understatement, PS3 isn't profitable at all, they're drowning in red ink. Dunno about the 360, but I seriously doubt it's profitable. Could be though. Still, nowhere near Wii, which is lightyears ahead.

Everyone and their grandmother love to bash Nintendo, but the fact remains that they're one of the very most succesful and profitable companies in the entire world, which cannot be said of their competitors.

I wrote "even in whole", as in not just the gaming divisions.

You did. So then, as in, their gaming divisions are not making ahy profit, but in fact posting losses? Sorry, didn't quite understand that form your post, but that's okay, as long as we agree on Nintendo's astounding profitability.

I would say mostly 1&3 with the occasional 2 thrown in.

EDIT: In fact, I would say 1 and 3 are pretty much synonomous in this case

What I meant was that the entire Sony corporation and Microsoft corporation weren't doing so well either.

Sony maybe, Microsoft though ?

Microsoft lowest profit in any quarter since the start of 2000 has been around 1.5 billion$ ( and that was ike 9 years ago).

Nintendo's best yearly profit was 4.77 billion$ ( what Microsoft typically earns these days in 5 months, ).

Nintendo's target profit for 2009-2010 is 2.5 billion$. Microsoft made 3.57 billion$ of profit for the first quarter of 2009-2010...

Right now Nintendomarket capitalization is little less than 40 billion$. Microsoft is 266 billion$....

Stop comparing what isn't comparable....