I'd bet Nintendo is only making $10~$5 per unit based on this figure. 

30 million by the end of 2018 would be faster than PS4 which passed 30 million in November 2015 or 2 full years after launch.

Are you for real?? So the retailer gets $0.00. The cost of logistics is $0.00. They pay $0.00 export/import tax, etc., etc.,

You live in a strange world, maybe the Mushroom Kingdom.

OT: I really expected it to be cheaper than that. They offer it at a reasonable price i think.

If they make any money from hardware sales at this moment I would be very surprise. I doubt they care about that right now anyway.

All these sites like the one where I first read this article all omit additional costs, as if they don't exist. It's fake news. It's click bait headlines.

The WiiU was "buy a WiiU and one game to make profit" according to Reggie.. or something like that.

One thing I learnt is that "not selling at a loss" doesn't necessarily translate to "selling at a profit".

If they do make profit it must be very tiny, but a profit is a profit.

if this figure is true, wich I have my doubts about since Nintendo said they are making profit on the system, it certainly explains why 12switch wasn't a pack-in.

Is there a source for this? I can't find where Nintendo directly confirmed that.

Well eitherway, yeah probably no price cut this year, but bundles are still very much likely to happen this holiday.

Very true, still I find it hard to believe they put damn near as much into 1-2switch as they did BOTW which is only $10 more with a 6 year development cycle..


Although I haven't played it 1-2 switch shouldn't be more than $30 retail and if they really wanted to showcase the system they should have sold it at $20. That of course would conflict with their software value philosophy .

So...How much of that goes into making it a hybrid? Either the dock, removable controllers, grips, ect. Or screen, battery, ect. Depending on how you look at it.

i remember shortly after the PS4 first launched, people tore that down to find the production cost. it turned out they only made $22 in profit from each console sold.

but now for my actual thoughts on this. i really do think, even more so than before, that they should have sold it at a loss and priced it at $249.99. they would have only lost $7 per unit, and the competitive price tag would have drawn in even bigger crowds than it already has, meaning they would profit a ton from software sales. or even go a step further and bundle a game with each unit priced at $299.99 to make it more competitive.

Im actually pretty sure making it a hybrid was the easy part. 

The dock - its a huge chunk of plastic with a few inputs. pocket change to make those.

removable controllers - just a fancy plastic design, not really more expensive that having a stand alone controller, which are already dirt cheap to produce. they may change $60 for a new Xbox xontroller but truth is they manufacture those for like $10.

grips - basically just plastic with a wrist strap. not very expensive.

screen - probably the biggest culprit actually. think of every screen as a TV. with that in mind, they basically strapped a mini HDTV to a home console. 

It's been sold out on Amazon since Firday, you're seeing third party offers.