VGKing said:
| RazorDragon said:
Well, it was the most powerful machine with phone hardware till the release of the iPad 4(about 1 year after Vita's release), came with a 5" OLED screen when high-end smartphones were mostly coming with 4.3inch screens and even the 3G version was cheaper to buy than any similarly spec'd smartphone at the time(Galaxy Note, I believe, was the only one with comparable screen, and it costed about 500 euros while having inferior hardware). Vita's hardware itself probably was making Sony lose money, however, thanks to the high priced memory cards that were obligatory if someone wanted to play games on the device, they probably had a profit on the hardware.
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Mobile Phones are sold at a huge profit. I don't know why you're obsessing on the size of the Vita screen. It's irrelevant. Read the article I linked to. Vita is profitable.
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Wii U is also profitable, IF sold together with a game. We don't know if Sony was talking about Vita only or if it was also counting a game or memory card together with a Vita to make the console profitable. Screen size increases costs and OLED screens are probably the most expensive screen tech out there, it's hard to believe the hardware itself was being sold for a profit at only $250 in Q1 2012.
