Dunban67 on 16 November 2014
| Soundwave said: This is the actual Iwata quote I believe: http://www.gamnesia.com/news/wii-u-no-longer-being-sold-at-a-loss#.VGkxWVfF95U "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." From the sounds of it they already have a ton of Wii Us sitting in inventory so they don't have to manufacture many more to supply the entire fiscal year. Which is kinda sad actually, lol. |
But Gameneaia s title is not correct or misleading at best- to say they are no longer selling at a loss is not right as their is a limit on how many they can sell at break even and as Iwata states clearly, it costs more to make a Wii u than they can sell it for - How they came up w their title based on their source info is baffling
To say they are no longer selling at a loss would imply the Wii u cost less to make than they can sell it for
