Wii U Apparently Still Being Sold At A Loss

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ElPresidente7 said:

[...]  However, the improbable best case szenario could be that the predicted loss in Q1 comes from production cost of a redesigned WiiU. [...]

This is what I was thinking as well.  If the WiiU Slim rumors are real, it could be a case of taking losses due to the initial switch, but making a more cost efficient console (and Gamepad) in the long run, which will hopefully show its effect sooner rather than later.  

My personal hope is that this is the case, and that this is also the reason why Mario Maker has been seemingly delayed from 1st half 2015 to the 2nd half, as I am still hopeful that the release of the game will coincide with a WiiU price drop to $249.