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Mummelmann on 06 February 2015
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DolPhanTendo said:

I'm glad most of do not run a business because if you constantly worrying about the other guys you will fail *coughSEGAcough*. Nintendo's numbers are up on WiiU sales for the 4th strait week this is what I like to call profit and good for business.
PS3 will still be a little higher at times due to other countries like that are poorer and are behind a handful of years so that is not a big deal. Look at the big three WiiU is around 40,000(rounded) PS3 is around 34,000(rounded) so WiiU is not lower


So if you simply disregard parts of the market; your product comes out on top? I'm glad you're not running a business either, this is not how global shipping and distribution works for any product. Sales being up is not automatically tied to profits and being good for business either, especially since it is said that Nintendo are losing money on each unit; if this is the case then software should be the most desired sale of them all to cover costs, five products on the top 20 software are on Nintendo platforms despite the 3DS being the second best-selling console globally, there is much to be desired for them here if they want to make a significant amount of money.

10 items selling at a loss per unit = a loss. 100 items selling at a loss per unit = loss. 43.000 items selling at a loss per unit = shockingly enough; a loss.