CNN Money Wii U Parts Price Estimate

[BlkPaladin]

pokoko said:

dsgrue3 said:

gigantor21 said:

Wait a second.

"While a totally of 3 million Wii U's were sold by 2012, sales slowed in January to less than 100k..."

The first part is the number of consoles shipped globally, but where the fuck did he get that <100k number for 2013? It's not even that low in the US alone.

It is that low in US. But I have no idea why he said the global sales for 2012, then went ahead and used US only sales for January 2013.

Probably to make it seem like as big a drop as possible.  Sensationalism sales.

I'm kind of confused about how Nintendo is losing money per console, though.  I don't think they'd tie R&D costs to manufacturing on a per-console basis.  Seems like that would be a departmental cost applied to the entire life-cycle.  I assumed that things like shipping, manufacturing, and exchange rates would contribute to the loss on an individual console.

There is also other costs such as logistics (Shipping), packaging, various labor costs that go on top of that.