Wii U hardware no longer sold at loss, apparently

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ToraTiger said:
What I find hard to believe is that this under powered, low spec, system with a controller made like a kid toy was ever being sold at a lost. It can't just be me right? What are they making the system out of, silver? The 360 was made 9 years ago, and they never sold that at a lost, and the Wii U isn't much ahead in terms of graphics, and the CPU is actually weaker.

I think whats really costing them is the whole 0 latency thing between the wiiU and the gamepad... Not even Nvidia shield or the vita can have as much low latency as the wiiU and the gamepad while streaming games and I am sure the tech is quite impressive for that... So theres that, then there is the wiiU hardware itself and the gamepad also has a bunch of things such as a nice camera, mic, speakers, IR blaster, nfc, touchscreen, headphone jack, volume control, wii motion sensor (the bar thing inside the gamepad), battery, accelerometer, gyroscope and its also a controller itself... So I think the cost adds up