Nintendo loses 21 dollars with every Wii U sold

[haxxiy]

Soleron said:

haxxiy said:
I really doubt it. The controller can't be that expensive.

Also, Mike already showed where his reasoning failed so nothing else to add.

It's probably MORE than that since 3DS, DS, Wii, software all made a profit.

Isn't there also stuff like R&D, advertising and general costs to factor in? Unless they already broke down those and I'm not seeing it.

Even if you are right, how can this even be the case? With that level of hardware the Wii-U would be profitable releasing three years ago. Unless the controller really is like $150 to manufacture... a little less than the manufacturing costs of an iPad by the way. For how much those are even selling?