FORTUNE: The game isn't over yet for Nintendo's Wii U

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Yakuzaice said:

curl-6 said:

The last reports of Wii U selling at a loss are from August 2013.

If the claims of it breaking even as of this March weren't true, the gaming media would have had a field day and there'd be an avalanche of articles from April or whatever onwards trumpeting that the system was still selling at a loss.

Also can't find any confirmation in that pdf that each console loses money.

That was the source for the restructuring costs and previous claims.

The Q&A is here http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140508qa/index.html

When he says "almost no loss" he's talking about a combination of existing Wii U stock as well as them having "to produce some more hardware units on top of our current hardware inventory". The loss could be from the old stock, built before they reached a break even point on production vs sale.