curl-6 said:
What other context is there? It doesn't sem that far-fetched to me that it could break even at $300USD when the hardware (even if its propriety) is rather low end. |
Well basically Iwata never said that the Wii U wasn't being sold at a loss. People got hold of a Japanese Q&A financial briefing and mistranslated a bunch of his answers.
When the officially translated English version was put up by Nintendo, it turned out Iwata didn't say what people thought he did.
Logically too ask yourself if the Wii U is making a profit, and the 3DS is making a profit (that has actually been confirmed by Iwata), then how is Nintendo still losing money pretty much every quarter like clockwork? I mean they've had some big selling games like Pokemon X/Y, 3D World, Animal Crossing, etc. so that can't be the culprit. It has to be Wii U hardware that's negatively impacting their bottom line.
