(Opinion) This is the LAST Xbox...!!!

[mjk45]

JNK said:

mjk45 said:

JNK said:
nintendo dont need to sell as many wii us as microsoft has to sell xbox´s to make profit. The wii us hardware is ALOT cheaper compared to xbox one but both consoles sell almost on the same price.

So if nintendo makes like 100 bucks per sold console but sony and microsoft are doing like 10 bucks the numbers wont count as much

No up untill recently  Nintendo was making a loss off every Wii U solid and a large one at that , mainly because of the cost of the pad , it is the main reason they where in the red after years of black ink.

i doubt the pad is that expensive. Probl 10-20$ not more. A complete iphone has 150$ material costs and dont use plastic old touchscreen in 480p

according to a CNN breakdown the  pad cost was $76 with $24 of that being the 6.1 inch screen , still no matter where the costs came , the fact was it was their first console to make a loss at retail .The consensus seemed to put it at around $50 per console , and that fits in with reggie saying one sold game made up for the loss.

I find that type of comment disengenius no matter who states it whether it's Sony,  Nintendo or MS,  because it makes it seem like the  price of one game wipes out the debt and we all know that Nintendo doesn't pocket all of the retail price and another thing people would have bought those games no matter what the consoles price was any way , the truth is making a profit from software doesn't in no way diminish the fact you have  lost money off the console the reason being those losses have still eaten away at those profits.

Still they now at least break even or make a small profit from WiiU sales so they at least don't have to worry about losing more money on ithe venture.