Wonder how much they are losing...either way it's interesting to see Nintendo taking this approach, guess this shows Nintendo is making some big chances in their business strategies.

from the price of the WiiU controller in japan im pretty sure thats adding alot of cost to producing the console, also add that the WiiU is using a custom made property format to read disc and im betting that will cost them more. blueray for sony would cost less now since its been on the market for a while and they managed to bring production of the thing down with the ps3

Interesting and concerning...

Not really. Nintendo probably just has high costs because of the Tabtroller.

That type of controller is not required what so ever for the other consoles.  Plus, Sony and MS can probably afford a lower price due to having subscription style services on their consoles.

I am still optimistic about pricing.

Your thread title says he was misquoted, but in the article it says that he "incorrectly said that Nintendo makes a profit on the Wii U console after consumers buy one piece of software."

The GamePad apparently cost aprox. $100 in the U.S.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=151013&page=1

i wonder how much it costs to make a WiiU

I was being nice, if you look up my other quote about 5 hours ago from what Iwata said to Reuters, I said he was lying.  The notion of being profitable after one game was the equivalent of being too good to be true, especially in this gaming environment.  You would have thought a Nintendo fan would have caught onto his lies, but hey...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152427&page=2#7

yeah its pretty expensive, if the WiiU came without it then it would have cost about 200/250 bucks. which is pretty cheap

And controllers are sold with high profit margins.