Those numbers are pathetic! I really hope they aren't true for any of the consoles.

(Minus 3DS, maybe.)

Well, damn. That must be a fairly big loss then and at only 50$ below the 360 launch price.

I find it strange that people are downplaying the hardware loss like they are for a few reasons;

1: Nintendo depend solely on their gaming income, its their only business venture and provides all their revenue (and incurrs all loses).

2: They haven't really gotten a very good hardware package for their buck, the gamepad must be pricy to produce indeed. This could prove a very dire decision since it appears that the gamepad isn't firing people up much at all and certainly nothing like the Wii-mote.

3: Sony were lashed for the longest time for selling a console at a loss, it was deemed disastrous and a stupid company move (which, to be honest, it was).

4: The hardware appears to be moving a lot slower than Nintendo themselves have projected, this gives them a huge problem since they have little to no wiggle room with pricing and have a cloudy release slate for most of 2013.

5: They are competing directly with the current generation of consoles and will also be competing with the next generation, a historically unique position for a console to be in and likely not one to count towards Nintendo's favor. The 360 and PS3 appear to be absolute steals when the three are juxtaposed by consumers.

Overall, like I've been saying since long before the Wii U launched; Nintendo are not in a very good position now and need to put all their effort into staying relevant globally. They stand a very real chance of becoming an obscurity in Europe, being dominated by a Microsoft console in the Americas and being slapped by handhelds and tablet/phone games in the East. They also betrayed their followers by going directly against their own sentiments from only a couple of years back (will continue software support for the Wii, will live for at least as long as the PS360 etc). Now, this is not a doom prophecy but it should be crystal clear to anyone with half a mind towards observation and business that they need to do something quite soon.

They won't slash the price by 100$ so soon, that would be ludicrous. I could see getting rid of the Basic model and dropping the Deluxe down 50$. That's all they really need to do.

And it wouldn't be over for them, 3DS is going strong.

I doubt Nintendo would want that to happen. Some type of card will be played by Nintendo before the release of MS/Sony's new consoles.

So have these numbers even been finalized?

So pezus, do you think Ps4 and nextbox will sell more in 2014? If all the attention shifts from WiiU when they release I dont see how it could sell more that year.

Why aren't these games system sellers for the Wii U?

So... all of this makes the 3DS the one possible savior of the industry, right?

I think this is what's going to happen: if the sales stay like this for 1-2 months Nintendo is going to announce games that they were planning to reveal at E3 (they can simple do a Nintendo Direct), if this works then the sales will stabilize until a "real" price cut at the end of the year, if the sales keep going down then Nintendo will cut the price by $50 (max $70) before E3.