Wii U Apparently Still Being Sold At A Loss

[SjOne]

ghost_of_fazz said:

SjOne said:
And this is just tech that's slightly more powerful than last gen. Imagine how much Nintendo would be bleeding if they had tech on par with PS4 and X1. They chose the lesser of two evils

It doesn't work like that.

It's about how much of that tech is being produced and bought. Right now, the AMD APU on the XBone/PS4 is produced for those two consoles, and for the mobile computer market. In the case of the Wii U's chip, it's being produced only, and ONLY for Nintendo. When you're mass producing anything, the cost goes down the more units are manufactured. I wouldn't be surprised if the Wii U chip costed more to produce than the one on the XBone/PS4.

Nintendo would've used custom hardware instead of PC hardware like PS4/X1 because it has a history of going to its own beat instead adapting.

They would've lost more