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Originally Posted by Hakan
The whole 'console war' idea is a figment in every fanboy's imagination.
It's an overly simplistic bar to judge the game companies that is easy for media to write about and easy for video game nerds to compare to.
I'll tell you what video game companies care about more. Making money. And Nintendo has done that hand over fist better than either MS or Sony. Nintendo may not have sold as many units but they have made immensely more profit, which, in my opinion, is what determines who wins. Who has the most successful business. Were it not for MS's huge bank account xbox would have gone the way of 3DO, Dreamcast and Turbographix.
The fact is that Nintendo's earnings are up 83% this year and that Nintendo products have grown the entire NA game industry by 85%. How Nintendo is 'losing' the war is beyond me. They are the healthiest of the three companies and have never lost one dollar with any of their system sales.
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I'm not a "gamer" and the only game I play is Tetris on my cell phone, but didn't Nintendo lose money on their Virtual Boy? That system only had a couple dozen games (I think)