Can anything save us from the "can anything save the Wii U" debates?

[burninmylight]

Ka-pi96 said:

burninmylight said:

In October 2012, Iwata said the Wii U will be profitable in the next fiscal year. That was now two calendar years ago. So a safe assumption is that the Wii U has been turning a profit for Nintendo on each unit sold since June (right when MK8 released).

That isn't the Wii U hardware. He is the saying the whole business model, including software sales and licensing fees. Not only that, he is only speculating that is the case, there is no confirmation there at all. In fact, we've seen the financial reports for 2013 and it doesn't look like it worked out the way he thought it would anyway.

So you really think that after two years on the market and one price cut, the Wii U isn't making a profit per unit sold when, before the console even launched, Iwata implied the Wii U would be profitable after one or two retail games are purchased with it?

EDIT: Nevermind, I have my answer: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6784276

Makes me wonder what your point was in the first place then. Software sales are the primary cash cow of a console, and licensing fees aren't nearly as much of a money sink as getting the console out of the door and getting production costs of it out of the red.