Wii U hardware no longer sold at loss, apparently

[episteme]

Sharu said:

episteme said:
Only if they reach their 3.6M forecast, right?

More units produced -> lower costs per unit

No. Its a details from investor briefing. 3.6 m forecast is separate from "Nintendo not experiencing a loss from hardware anymore"

No, it's not independent:

From the Q&A:

"With respect to the impact of Wii U hardware sales on profit and loss, in order to sell 3.60 million units, we have to produce some more hardware units on top of our current hardware inventory. However, since the loss arising due to the hardware production costs being higher than our trade price was taken into account in the previous fiscal year, you could assume that there will be almost no loss this fiscal year for the sales of the 3.60 million hardware units."

Source: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140508qa/index.html