The financials behind Nintendo going 3rd party

[Miyamotoo]

Ka-pi96 said:

Miyamotoo said:

From business perspective,
they have full control of their entire gaming business with their own hardware and software, they always have profit on each sold console (reason why they still don't have Wii U price cut), and they have very large profit on console controllers/accessories (Wii U Pro/Wii Remote are $60 and they cost them around $20), and almost every Wii U owner have some extra controller (for my Wii U I have 1x Wii U Pro, 3x Wii Remote and 1x Nunchuk).

Definitely made a loss on Wii Us sold for awhile, I think they still do even. I believe they also made a loss selling 3DSs as well for awhile. So no, not always.

They have loss on Wii U first year, they have profit in 2014, 3DS maybe was selling at loss right after price cut for a while, but that nothing if compare that with Xbox (especially Xbox) and PS consoles which sales years at loss.