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DonFerrari said:
Pyro as Bill said:

Does the Switch dock cost Nintendo less than the $60 Sony and MS charge to allow online multiplayer?

(I thought PS4 and XB1 both sold at a profit this gen https://www.techinsights.com/blog/playstation-4-vs-xbox-one-teardown-comparison)

Yes it does, and yes both Sony and MS are greedy on their charging of multiplayer (but not sure why you are asking since Nintendo isn't doing much better on charging for online are they?)

PS4 and X1 sold for a loss at the start of the gen. Sony said they broke even with one game and PS+ sold with a console. That is were the 50 loss per HW assumption comes from (there is no precise and official loss per HW).

Selling HW at a loss at the start of the generation is a strategy used for over 20 years on console world and have nothing to do with not being able to manage own finances or HW being undesireable.

Oh? Zelda BOTW need to sell only 2 million copies to be success. Call me when there is an open world game from Sony on ps4 which also only need to sell 2 mil.

And whatever MS and Sony's strategy is, they still had to accept the lost when launching ps4/xbox 1 at first, Nintendo didn't need to follow suit when they launching Switch, that mean their strategy and their money management skills are superior compared to them.