Those numbers are not only undertracked, but make it seem as if the Wii is below the PS3 and 360.

Well, they made $49 US equivalent at launch on consoles sold in the US at launch, less in Japan, $79 US equivalent in Europe, more elsewhere.

So I'm guessing this is not true

Half the people arguing here even care to read about the definition of operating profit??? there is a difference between profit and operating profit!
if you have understand the term then that $6 prediction isnt too much off from reality.

Lets put this in a simple example:
you make some item cost you $3 to make and you sold it for $10, and you get a profit of $7. Now lets say your wage is $4/hr and this item took you 1hrs to sell it. now your Operating profit is $3!!!!

They make way more I think its around $40.

way way more, from games alone they would not be making 1 billion EACH quarter+

So the article says there are only 13 million PS3's, it only costs $300 to make a PS3 and $260 to make a Wii? And somehow if this were true, Sony is still losing money on each PS3 even though it sells for $400? Also, the 360 which uses many more parts than the Wii somehow can break even at being sold for $199?

The article has no facts whatsoever. Back in 2006 it was figured that each Wii cost around $150.

I think that it doesn't really matter how much nintendo is making off each console sold. Even if they only made a cent for each one sold, they'd still be rolling around in wads of cash.

38,000,000 x $.01 = $380,000 = Not exactly wads of cash for a massive game company.

The Wii has BT and MS HW is old.