Frogger on 30 January 2015
Yeah, I figured that out months ago. As soon as you remember that Nintendo forecasted selling like 9 million Wii Us by it's first March, meaning they had to have had that many manufactured by then, the rest becomes obvious.
So, for clarification, yes, the Wii U was being sold at a profit for a while. But the reason was because they were selling old inventory, not because manufacturing costs went down.
They need to figure out a way to keep costs down once they start manufacturing again. I'm not saying this will happen, but a redesign soon would not at all surprise me. They need to keep profits as high as possible while they're riding out the Wii U. You probably won't see much more than 6m more Wii U's sold in the rest of it's life span.
