Scoobes on 23 May 2014
| AnthonyW86 said: Probably the interesting thing now is that apparently at $300 a Wii-U is not profitable and a PS4 at $400 is. I mean sure the tablet controller will raise the cost but looking at the specs of the Wii-U, a PS4 costing less than $100 more to make is just ridicilous. |
That's possibly in part to do with the sales of each console. As Wii U hasn't been selling well, Nintendo can't afford to bulk buy large stocks of components as they'll just end up as wasted inventory. This in turn means they can't negotiate great deals based as they're not ordering in bulk.
PS4 on the other hand has been selling quickly so Sony knows it needs a large amount of components and can probably negotiate better deals on the hardware simply by virtue of large/bulk orders.
