How much do the platform holders earn/lose per sold console?

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fatslob-:O said:

Ka-pi96 said:

It does make sense for them to lower the price (at least if they are making any kind of decent profit per unit sold) since the majority of their profits come from their software sales. Look at the likes of Mario Kart and Splatoon, they are the money makers for Nintendo. More Wii Us sold means more people to sell their software to.

Selling software isn't the only way to make a killing when you look at amiibo or the hardware Nintendo was selling last gen ...

But amiibo are also tied to how much hardware you sell.... And this isn't last gen we're talking about, this is current gen.

Anyway, Nintendo made almost as much revenue from their own software compared to their own hardware, and the margin is deffinitely higher for 1st party software than hardware, so a pricecut would make especially much sense for a company like Nintendo.