Soundwave on 29 January 2015
| baloofarsan said: Since the Gamboy started Nintendos handheld empire they have been able to hide a lot behind those profits. Do we know for sure N64 and GC was not sold at loss? There are reports that the Wii was supply constrained for the first couple of years due to the console was sold at a loss http://mynintendonews.com/2014/05/31/nintendo-apparently-supply-constrained-the-wii-as-was-losing-money-on-each-unit-sold/ . |
I guess the Wiimote cost a metric asston or maybe that was due to R&D costs?
I don't understand how they could be losing so much money if the Wii was basically a repackaged GameCube. Unless they were losing a ton of money on the GameCube too.
Honestly they might need to go back to Yamauchi's playbook ... the NES and SNES both used relatively off the shelf components and Yamauchi hardballed SGI into giving them an even better price on a chip that was a bargain to begin with.
