In terms revanue the wii u already made profits, the vita dident, the x360 an ps3 dont cost as much as the wii u does, let alone they are only striving because there next gen counsle is still in the fog, when the x720 or what ever is on line-up details, games, cost, an release date is shown to be near releasing time, the x360 wont sell that much, that goes the same for the ps3 vs ps4. Yet being so far away people want whats here now, so the ps3 an x360 will still sell fairly well.
Comparing units that dont have the same cost amount is absurd, for the wii u is more expensive then what the wii was, an still in terms N vs X vs S, nintendo is still beating the last gen race. Dont even bother comparing something which isint in its catagorie, because wii is ahead of the ps3 by a mile, 20 mill---e---on thats 20 million units, do you know how much 20 million wiis would look like in a ware-house?
Ok, you touched on a couple of things with this post and everything you wrote is BS.
First, Sony has announced the PS4 and we all know the Xbox is coming by the end of this year so if that was going to affect sales in any way it would already be doing it. The WiiU is the new kid on the block and is being outsold by
7 year old consoles not to mention the Wii was wildly successful when it came out.
Second, unlike Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft don't make money of off the consoles themselves but of off the games they sell afterwards. Everyone knows that 3rd party people hated the Wii because it catered to the casuals who just wanted to play WiiSports and garbage like that. So now that the WiiU is out I doubt most of their target consumer base even knows that the Wii and WiiU are different products. You cater to the idiots and that's what happens. In terms of first party titles the Wii had some good entries but lets not kid ourselves, software sales on PS360 was much better especially for third party developers.
Are you serious? Current gens, lol...nintendo's one title, yes uno title el.."Pokemon" is at-least a 10 billion dollar assest, so beyound popular it branched to assesories, movies, card games, toys an hundreds of other products, name one game that banked any other (Game-ing industry) that much cash?
I'm not intrested in sonys other eletronic pockets keeping them alive, just what there "games" can amount up to emit, nothing of even combining microsofts an sonys best #1 game franchise can amount up to Nintendos heavy hitters, as you said best games, uh huh! Best games actually sell an have the data to back it up, in terms profit.
Again I'll highlight the catagorie..."Games"...if sony dident have other roads to take to make ends meet, they would have bankrupted years ago, the ps3 had barley broken off even in terms profit, an the vita has made a huge whole in there pockets. You just contradicted your self, if you were to compare the game it self, then no credit will have ever gone to sony, sony has the least first party games out of the 3, they are all 3rd party games, sony dosent own square enix an other well selled game partys, taking only a peice of the pie, while everything nintendo has brought to the table in the past has been pure profit on there own inovations, not some rip off gimmick.
Pokemon is a first party title for Nintendo so I don't even know why you would bring that up. Nintendo's problem has never been first party titles, it has been getting third party developers on board with their console.
Also you bring up the BS about console profit, do you understand that Sony and Microsoft make money from the software not the hardware? Does that compute or are you just going throw around your "20 millions UNITZ" around?
Sony actually has a large portfolio of first party/second party developers:
First Party:
Asia
SCE Japan Studio Ape Escape, Siren, LocoRoco, Patapon, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Knack
Polyphony Digital Gran Turismo series, Tourist Trophy
North America
Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot series, Jak and Daxter series, Uncharted series, The Last of Us - Also home of the ICE Team
SCE Santa Monica Studio Kinetica, God of War series, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
SCE San Diego Studio MLB: The Show, ModNation Racers
SCE Bend Studio Syphon Filter, Resistance: Retribution, Uncharted: Golden Abyss
SCE Foster City Studio - supported studio for SCE Worldwide Studios
Sucker Punch Productions Sly Cooper series, Infamous series
Gaikai
Sony Online Entertainment - EverQuest series, PlanetSide series, DC Universe Online
Europe
SCE London Studio SingStar, EyeToy, PlayStation Home
Guerrilla Cambridge MediEvil, Killzone: Mercenary
Evolution Studios World Rally Championship, MotorStorm series
Guerrilla Games Killzone series
Media Molecule LittleBigPlanet series
Second Party:
Asia
Clap Hanz Everybody's Golf series
Cellius Ridge Racer Vita
North America
Insomniac Games[30] Spyro The Dragon series, Ratchet & Clank series, Resistance series,
Ready at Dawn Studios God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Daxter, God of War: Origins Collection
Idol Minds Pain, Ruin, Ratchet & Clank Collection
Sanzaru Games - Secret Agent Clank, The Sly Collection, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Zindagi Games Sports Champions, Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest
Minority - Papo & Yo
Giant Sparrow - The Unfinished Swan
Europe
Quantic Dream Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls
Tarsier Studios Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Double Eleven LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Novarama Invizimals, Reality Fighters
Supermassive Games Start the Party!, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, Until Dawn, Tumble, walking with dinosaurs
Plastic Games - Linger in Shadows, Datura
So what's this nonsense about Sony living off of third party developer support?