Reggie: Price Cuts are baaaad. Software is goooood

[Millennium]

Joelcool7 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
Since the Wii is already at a sweet spot for pricing, a cut will be when the price is no longer necessary to stay that high (as in the profit margin is so high, even a price cut will still make loads).

And it makes sense that Nintendo is courting developers. That's kind of what Sony did with the PS1.

According to EAGames and Sega back when the Wii was first released. Nintendo would make a profit by selling the console as low as 170$. This means it costs less then 170USD to manufacture a Wii. So that means Nintendo is making about 100$ in pure profits off of every unit, and since its launch in 2006 hardware manufacturing costs will have gotten even cheaper. I wouldn't be suprised if Nintendo was making 150$ off of every console sold.

Those rumors were pretty soundly debunked. While the Wii certainly made a profit at launch, the cost to make at the time was about $210, not "less than $170." The $170 crap was just another not-so-subtle insult from developers being all butthurt that the Wii wouldn't let them continue the graphics-are-everything philosophy.