| kupomogli said: They've made that back with one sale. |
Citation needed. Your earlier link contradicts this claim.
| kupomogli said: And it's not all about losing money on hardware. |
Perhaps not (though I'm glad to see you're conceding this point), but if your theory is that they deliberately introduced an 'underpowered' machine to line their own pockets, the fact that they're losing money on said machines rather puts the lie to that. Unless you're taking the even more absurd position that first-parties are somehow required to lose money on the system, and that Nintendo's sin was in not losing more money per system sold.
| kupomogli said: You're ignoring that at the time of release they saved around $200 by giving their customers a small upgrade that's closer to the last gen hardware than next gen. |
So you are saying that the only way Nintendo would not be greedy would be by losing far more money per system sold, in this case to the tune of some amount over $200. Which, assuming they get $12 in royalty for every $60 third-party title sold, would mean they potentially would need to sell over sixteen third-party games just to break even. Or maybe they're greedy because they don't want consumers to pay 66% more per console? That's an interesting point of view either way. Lucky that only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems, huh?
| kupomogli said: It was developed to entice gamers as a cheap next gen product instead of giving us something of next gen quality. |
I honestly don't know what this means. 
| kupomogli said: Before you come back with they tried something unique, the tablet like I said in another post you quoted is nothing more than the bottom screen of the DS. Nintendo knows hardly anyone uses it for unique purposes. Nintendo doesn't even use it for unique purposes. They only released it because it was different and maybe they could lure in people to purchase it like they did the Wii. |
I am going to summarize your position as I understand it. You must correct me where I'm wrong, because it has zero logical consistency, is not in accordance with common sense, and is defining words in ways which are not found in the dictionary meaning of said words. To wit:
"Nintendo is a greedy company. They deliberately chose to make a cheap and underpowered system in order to save themselves some money, and then tried to fool customers into buying said cheap and underpowered system so that they could make a larger profit. In order to trick people into buying this cheap and underpowered system to the masses, they included a very expensive peripheral with each system which gobbled up all the money they saved by making the system so crappy and then some, but that additional cost doesn't count because it's just a bigger DS screen that no one uses so for accounting purposes it means that Nintendo is actually making a profit of over a hundred bucks per Wii U.
"Furthermore, Nintendo is making a profit on the hardware because it only takes selling one game to make up for the loss on the hardware, according to the older and overridden entries in this google search *link*. But even if that's not true it doesn't matter; Nintendo's greed is shown in the fact that it didn't make the system more powerful instead and then charged consumers at least an extra $200 per unit while presumably losing (More / Less/ Same : please circle one).
"In conclusion, for purposes of this thread at least I am publicly demanding that the Wii U be a clone competing systems because of reasons, but I am unable to properly express my outrage that it tried to do something different instead so I assert that by introducing a machine which is $100-$200 cheaper than the competition (now with at least one game bundled free for every system, so it's more like $160-$260 cheaper) while still losing money on every bit of hardware sold, Nintendo is being greedy. Alternatives that I considered but rejected include, but are not limited to, Selfish, Evil, Oppresive, Outrageous, Vainglorious, and Hungry."
