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Soleron on 08 August 2013
ninetailschris said:
Soleron said:
ninetailschris said:
Horrible article. Wrong prices. Has been since decline that Reggie said one sell of software will lead to profit. Horrible fact checking by a horrible site in my opinion. Unprofessional.

Reggie backtracked on that btw.


He backtracked on a backtrack?

No, I just couldn't parse your English lol.



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oni-link on 08 August 2013

Where is the link that says that Reggie or Nintendo backtracked on one game sold and it makes up the loss? AFAIK as long as the Wii U sells one software (the Nintendoland bundle don't count) that Nintendo made up the loss. Also it had better be some legit shit and not some poster from Gaf. If it came from a forum I call a big pile of B$ on that one!



justinian on 08 August 2013
oni-link said:
Where is the link that says that Reggie or Nintendo backtracked on one game sold and it makes up the loss? AFAIK as long as the Wii U sells one software (the Nintendoland bundle don't count) that Nintendo made up the loss. Also it had better be some legit shit and not some poster from Gaf. If it came from a forum I call a big pile of B$ on that one!


 You have every right to doubt anything written in this - or any other - forum without hard proof.

I did some research and found this a while back:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22013695

I believe it to be true but I will leave that decision up to you. I think it is significantly more than one piece of software simply because if it was a small figure they would have proudly stated it. The bigger the number the more embarassing it becomes so best to keep the figure hidden. That of course is speculation on my part.

Here is the extract:

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 11/25/2012, pg. A2)
In a story about Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, Fils-Aime incorrectly said that Nintendo makes a profit on the Wii U console after consumers buy one piece of software. The number is more than one, but the company declined to say the exact number.



mii-gamer on 08 August 2013
justinian said:
oni-link said:
Where is the link that says that Reggie or Nintendo backtracked on one game sold and it makes up the loss? AFAIK as long as the Wii U sells one software (the Nintendoland bundle don't count) that Nintendo made up the loss. Also it had better be some legit shit and not some poster from Gaf. If it came from a forum I call a big pile of B$ on that one!


 You have every right to doubt anything written in this - or any other - forum without hard proof.

I did some research and found this a while back:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22013695

I believe it to be true but I will leave that decision up to you. I think it is significantly more than one piece of software simply because if it was a small figure they would have proudly stated it. The bigger the number the more embarassing it becomes so best to keep the figure hidden. That of course is speculation on my part.

Here is the extract:

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 11/25/2012, pg. A2)
In a story about Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, Fils-Aime incorrectly said that Nintendo makes a profit on the Wii U console after consumers buy one piece of software. The number is more than one, but the company declined to say the exact number.

thanks for that. 

It looks like nintendo isn't going to cut the price anytime soon



Mr Khan on 08 August 2013
KylieDog said:
$50 cut in Sept/Oct, if sales don't pick enough after MK8 and co another $50 at E3. Third party for home consoles annoucement E3 the following year (2015).

I'm going to assume the last part was a joke and not totally lose it.



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Iveyboi on 08 August 2013

I bought my WiiU Basic at Target (Canada) for $149.99!!!! Definitely a loss there



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bananaking21 on 08 August 2013

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Max King of the Wild on 08 August 2013

This was obvious for anyone who wasn't nintendo fan. Not only did they say they needed more than one game per unit to turn profit but the technology they went with wont drop as fast as something like the x1, ps3, 360, or ps4 will have. On top of that, the comment about being profitable after one game went with their projection of 5.5mil at the end of march. Law of diminishing returns here. After sales slumped as much as they did the losses increased.



Max King of the Wild on 08 August 2013
goodgamesir said:
Gaming journalist hating on Nintendo again, Reggie said they only needed to sell one software to turn a profit on the wii U and they sold 8,364,467 games so far so they made money on 8,364,466 games. keep hating, haters



Good point about the games. So now the hardware isn't losing money for Nintendo... It's just the games... Maybe if they sell a gamepad for each game sold they will turn profit.



superchunk on 08 August 2013

Damn. Figured they'd be profitable by now, however with the low sales they likely never hit good production yield to be profitable. In fact, its likely that they are even losing more now than at launch due to lower production qty which raises per item costs.