Sure, selling overengineered hardware using the razor blade model will do that.

But we're talking about software, and third parties give truckloads of cash to console manufacturers in royalties. If the hardware isn't crippling the company, software from third parties alone can bring in some huge profits.

Your statement makes no sense. 

You Say:

Nintendo isn't going to pay for these multiplats to exist on their system like Sony and Microsoft have been

But then support that with this claim:

They are a business, are they not?

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are all buisnesses and that fact has nothing to do with buying multiplats.

Why did you bring exclusives into the conversation? I thought you all were talking about multiplats.

That is an extremely naive way of understanding how any buisness operates.

Every business in existence spends Money to make Money. Nintendo is no exception, paying for exclusive is no exception. To suggest that no money is made by spending money is extremely shortsighted.

There is a reason there is a difference between gross profit and actual profit.

Hell every console in existence was intially sold, manufactured, and distributed at a loss.

Furthermore, it has inexplicitly been proven that Sony and Microsoft profit off a third party regardless of how much they've spent on it.

If Sony spends 100$ to get 3rd parties and gets 1000$ in return, its better business than Nintendo who saved 100$ to loose 1000$. Do the math, thats +900 vs -900. 

Money not invested is Money wasted, that is bad for buisness. 

This tends to happen when you have hundreds of more games on said system than the other system.

VGC shows sales for 97 Wii U games versus 53 PS4 games.  Also with the recent adjustments it seems the PS4 passed the Wii U in software sales on the week Madden released.  It is now 23% ahead in lifetime software sales.

But that still makes no sense because what 95%(not literally but you know what I mean) of the games on the Wii U are only on the Wii U so that just makes it seem like you are trying to give the edge to the Wii U. Also the Wii U currently has almost twice s many games as the PS4 if I am not msitaken so it easily has an advatage in games. Heck if the comparission was done the way you want it to be done it would be like 6 vs 60 or something like that(exclusives) where as incucing every game it is more like 51 or 52 vs 93 or 94(51-52 is PS4) so I guess while I seee your point it is just as asinine as the one you seem to be upset about.

Yet atleast with the current comparission it takes nothing out and is all inclusive so it makes more sense IMO>

So you are saying the Wii U should no thave been passed since it has more games than the PS4? Or did you mean something else?