How do you know if a game or console made profit or not?

[ArtofAngels]

Lingyis said:

50% is a good rule of thumb to use.

so NSMB probably has brought home about $50 mln for nintendo. in america.

estimate to your heart's content how much it took nintendo to develop the game.

 

EDIT: but since nintendo doesn't have to pay itself royalties on the DS, it's actually more than 50%.  probably more like 60-65%. 

50% is far to high!!

And every games store makes money off hardware, who ever said otherwise?

As far as I know my local EB only get as little as 20% or less for brand new games.

When sales decrease or as time goes on, the publisher of the game will sell it's game for cheaper to the retailers, resulting in a price cut at the stores, how much they cut the price is up to them, but they (retailers) make alot of money out of the games that have been out for awhile more-so then brand new games.

For example today EB are probably making 50% or more for every Final Fantasy X sold.