DonFerrari on 29 November 2015
| DivinePaladin said: Do you wanna sell ten consoles a year at $300 or elevem a year at $200? At this point the sales aren't gonna make up for the price cut - remember that during the GC years they couldn't give the damn thing away, at one point it was $50 and still selling like garbage. Plus, I do believe there was an issue where one of their chips was exclusively made by one contractor that got bought out (believe it or not I think I vaguely recall Sony being the one buying them out, don't hold me to that though); I think they ended up turning that into a profitable situation but at first it was a pretty big problem. Lastly, they only relatively recently sold through their original model of Wii U, which cost more to manufacture than the slightly updated model. Those weren't profitable at sub-$300, but apparently these are. |
Yes Sony bought the factory, but that didn't made the price of the part rise since Nintendo probably had a contract already.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
