>>13235609Considering the inflated development costs associated with developing on more advanced hardware, Gen 3 was likely more profitable.
The 3M more units D/P/Pt sold would be about $12M in profit, it's safe to assume development costs were at LEAST $12M given dual screen, online, and graphics support that were added.
Gen 4 sold marginally better on a twice as large user base and was not as profitable per unit.
