Nintendo Just Did What Microsoft Did.

[SvennoJ]

Shadow1980 said:

SvennoJ said:

The XBox was worse than dead though. It was sold at a big loss with no way to make the system cheaper due to NVidia not budging on the price of the components. The XBox lost MS nearly 4 billion in the end. Pretty expensive foot in the door. Afaik Nintendo is still making money with the WiiU.
MS needed to switch to 360 asap, although it cost them over a billion more loss.

On the other hand, them rushing to get the 360 out of the door when they did may have been the cause of the high failure rates, which eventually cost MS another billion-plus dollars. It might have been better for them and the customers if they had waited another year.

That's what I meant with the extra 1.15 Billion loss.
Yet it was estimated that when XBox hit $299, the BOM was still $425. So every 8 million sales would cost MS 1 billion. Kinda made the decision to risk it with rushed hardware easy. Better spend that billion on a console you're going forward with.