Materia-Blade said:
I remember a fiscal report from nintendo from a long time ago. But again, what makes you think it is losing money? it's the same price for 2 years and it was breaking even 2 years ago. |
last fiscal year it was break even up to 3 million+/- units only de to the fact they wrote down the cost of their remaining inventory (at that time) from the previous fiscal year- Iwata said it was costing them more to manufacture the Wii U than they could sell them for- however by averaging in significant inventory at or close to zero $ s with whatever they had to manufacture last fiscal year they would come close to break even selling up to 3 or 3.2 million ( or close to those numbers i am going by memory). T omorrow ill try to find and post the exact quote from Iwata-
Basically the last information that Nintendo has given out (that i am aware to date- hopefully they will update at theri next earnings release) is the Wii U cost more to make than they could sell it - Is it possible cost have come down since then- yes- Enough for them to sell the Wii u at a profit? Not sure yet- But the last official word/public reporting i am aware is they are at a loss- But they have not turned much inventory since then so it is more difficult to get cost down
