and you also ignore the fact that he hates the whole event because of political reason

All you proved was that big brands sell well by virtue of their name alone. Quality rarely goes hand in hand with mainstream success. 

Feel free to believe whatever you want. If you don't want to have a proper discussion (by replying to actual points instead of coming up with your own that I never said) you can argue with someone who puts up with that. I'm done wasting my time here.

You didn't bring up any points, you just used a sales argument. I guess MacDonalds is a better restaurant than a restaurant with 3 stars... /s

You can literally sell a turd in a box if you market it right. 

As a matter of fact, someone actually did exactly that. 

And all this clearly shows is that you didn't read the subsequents posts before you made this post.

As I have tried to explain multiple times, the reason Phone companies can mark up their prices from $255 that it costs them to make it and sell it for $600, is because your business with them ends after you buy that phone. Consoles work differently, you business starts with them after you buy their console. More of the reason why consoles, unlike phones....  can afford to sell through at significantly lower margins or even at a loss, cause they know they will get way more than that money back through software sales and accessories over the next 1-6years of living in your pocket.

Thats ok, I think its a fairly common misconception of how these things work. But yh, retailers are kinda always protected though. Its really all a system that varies from the size of the retailer. There are three main forms,

1. the retailer pays nothing up front and just puts  in a request from the manufacturer and pays the manufacturer after its sold a certain number of items. (really big companies can do this, amazon...etc)
2. wholesale controlled credit or stock with supplier credit is the system used for smaller stores. here the retailer has a credit with the manufacturer that allows them "qualify" to recieve a certain amount of stock.
3. Pay outright...... this one is kinda self explanatory. You pay outright to the manufacturer for the items. This system is most easily affected by price flutuations, but the manufacturers have wasys to keep their clients happy, usually be subtracting the difference of their loss from their next order.

Except that's not true at all. Apple, for example, makes a lot of money from Apple App Store. A lot more than what Nintendo or Sony are making...

Only time will tell. But looking back at the Wii U I would say yes.

I don't think the average consumer cares one way or another whether the console manufacturer is making a profit. They only care about the value the system provides them for the money. If you are into Nintendo first-party games, or the ability to play the same console at home and on-the-go is a high priority to you, then Switch provides a lot of value.

In my opinion (which isn't worth anything), $299 (and even more expensive overseas) plus the high accessory cost and no bundled game puts Switch outside of the "impulse buy" range for most consumers. If I was a third party developer, this would concern me a little bit because I'd worry that Nintendo is prioritizing their own short-term financial health over increasing the install base of the system.

It's quite possible that Switch ends up supply-constrained for the first year though, so I guess we will see what the true value of the system is by what scalpers end up charging for it.

This argument makes no sense. The Switch is a product that does more for than the Iphone and Samsung Galaxy despite the fact that it costs less to produce and the profit margin is much smaller. If anything, you are proving why the Switch SHOULD be 300$. Because even if it's 200$ to make(which I even have doubts about it being that low) it's profit margin would only be 100$ as opposed to a phone which offers more features, sure, but gets sold for ridiculously more new. So if anything, you're making Nintendo look fairer with this comparison.

Sorry, the switch does more than a smartphone?

Well, at least I see why the point makes no sense to you. 

I've said before, lets just leave it alone. I bow out of this discussion. However much any individual person thinks the switch is worth to them is all that matters at the end of the day.