I'm Pleased With the Wii U's Sales

[Soleron]

g911turbo said:

Soleron said:
From a doom perspective, I'd have preferred 10x the Wii U sales but a reported loss. Every quarter they post profit, accounting trick or inflation or whatever, is another quarter Iwata stays President.

I don't think there are many tricks.  Nintendo just isn't selling either of their system at a loss, but rather, a profit.  They might need to change that philosophy with the Wii U if software alone doesn't turn the ship around.

1. Wii U is definitely being sold at a loss, because they haven't announced it's being sold at a profit yet

2. Someone on neogaf said the accounting trick is to repatriate a ton of cash from EU and NA, pay huge tax on it in Japan (bad), but it looks like profit. And that Sony keeps money abroad and untaxed because that's actually better.