When did the PS3 become profitable? I understand in certain quarters it reported a profit but I don't believe it has made enough to dig it out of that massive hole it's early losses put it in. Info I had looked up had PS3 losses basically wiping out all the profit the first two playstations made.
PS3 started making money towards the end of 2012, that's overall, not just for that period, so eventually it went in the black....
Foxi4: You're enjoying using the word 'underwhelming' a lot these days aren't you , and frankly who cares what you think regarding the Gamecube & N64? Rule #1 as a company: you make money. That's all that matters in the end. Both GC & N64 did just that. And if you don't mind me saying weren't exactly 'underwhelming' enough to stifle sales of the Wii. You're not important enough that your personal thoughts on Nintendo's previous generation consoles are gonna single-handedly change the direction the company is gonna take. Neither are mine, or anyone elses on here, for that matter.... Ditto this strange plan of Nintendo's route back to success you've got going on here either: you actually think a port of GTA5 would've transformed the Wii U's fortunes? How short sighted... Firstly it wouldn't have been anything like 'the definitive' version due to bafflingly underpowered architecture in certain key areas for a game like that, as I'm sure you're aware of(?) Secondly, GTA5 aside the biggest selling game of last year was COD:Ghosts - Wii U got a version of that, and I'm sure I don't need to tell everyone how many that didn't shift....
Otherwise yours and Gahars points are valid of course: were the Wii U/Nin themselves more dev friendly from the outset things may have been quite different, but if every AAA 3rd party game of this year suddenly turned out to be coming to the Wii U too (yeah I'm entering fukkin cloud-cuckoo land here! ) it wouldn't make a scrap of difference to the console's fortunes. It's on life support, and will always be like that until Nintendo stop supporting it themselves. It's not even gonna reach Gamecube level sales, and no plan that either you, me, or Nintendo themselves is gonna change that (and they know this). 2-3 years of changing the drip is all Nin can do with the Wii U (still, us gamers with more than one console can enjoy some quality titles in this time though, starting with MK8...), then it's back to square 1 for Nintendo and what they do with their 'next generation'..