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Wii U 'profitable after one game purchase'

Nintendo has said its loss-making Wii U swings to profit with just a single game purchase along with the console.

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TheLyonKing4933d ago

Very strange margin but if true then it can't be much but a profit is still a profit I guess no matter how small.

victoryscreeeeeech4933d ago

because a profit's a profit, no matter how small.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

I hope ps4 takes a year to be profitable. I want more power and a good price.

Ninty just used cheap hardware obviously. But still good business strategy.

Deku-Johnny4933d ago

As Tesco would say "Every little helps".

AWBrawler4933d ago

And we all know a new 2D Mario is gauranteed to sell big. They pretty much made their money back already lol

eagle214933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

Exactly, NSMBW sold 26 million copies...multiply that by around $40 to $49 and you can see that this game alone makes Nintendo so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

FinalomegaS4933d ago

does that include nintendoland bundled?

if so then that would be smart.

TruthbeTold4933d ago

Why not? The Basic is $300, the Deluxe is $350, and comes with a game, a larger SD card, a bunch of extra plastic, the color most people want, and a deal on downloadable games. If you were to buy the basic and Nintendo Land, you're already at Deluxe cost. It's probably the Basic that they lose money on.

Hicken4933d ago

Why wouldn't they have said this earlier? I mean, we've known for quite a while that they were taking a loss on each system; wouldn't that have been a good time to add in, "Oh, but we make that loss back if they buy just ONE game?"

I'm confused as to why they would wait so long to announce this.

beerkeg4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

Why do they NEED to announce this? Does it really matter to you?

EDIT:'I want to know how much of a profit do they make off a game and is it any game of just their first party titles? '

Why, are you going to make some pie charts?

SilentNegotiator4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

They're called investors. Ever heard of them?

Nintendo is publicly traded. Investors would have liked to have known that there's a profit after ONE game.

beerkeg4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

I didn't know Hicken was an investor.

EDIT:@Godchild1020

Fair enough.

SilentNegotiator4933d ago

You wouldn't need to.

Nintendo should be keeping their investors informed regardless of whether Hicken is an investor or not.

rainslacker4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

Not sure of the exact numbers for how much they make off a game, but logic would dictate that they would make more off a 1st party title since they do not have to pay licensing cost and since they are also the publisher they get the entire profit from the game. If the game were published by 3rd party all they would receive is the licensing cost. Those costs vary depending on the game and publisher and what kinds of deals they may have with them, among many other factors.

It's good for them though, since it's likely that everyone will buy at least one game with their new system. This console isn't really an alternative for media uses IMO, so people wouldn't be buying it just to use as a blu-ray player the way some were for the PS3 at launch.

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Godchild10204933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

I want to know how much of a profit do they make off a game and is it any game of just their first party titles?

How much was the lost on the Wii U, not much I guess? Anyway congratulations Nintendo.

@above, no pie chart. Just a general question. The question is not only towards Nintendo, but to Sony and Microsoft. Also Nintendo profit loss on each Wii U sold couldn't be that big unless their selling their games at a higher profit margin. That's why I ask, because all I have is speculations.

I'm a business/Psychology major, so I ask these questions often.

badz1494933d ago

they announced this quite awhile back but I'm not so sure it was officially from Nintendo or some other websites were reporting it but this is not really "new"! but I can't find the source though

Syntax-Error4933d ago

Any under-powered system can be sold for a profit at $300. Current gen is more powerful than this next gen product, so why shouldn't they make a profit. You're the fool if you feel you need this backward technological mistake. Either that or you're just as bad as Apple whores

lilbroRx4933d ago

Unlike fanboys of the HD twins, Nintendo fans don't care who has the biggest numbers. Mario Galaxy 2 had great graphics and it didn't need HD to achieve them. Same with The Last Story and Xenoblade.

Nintendo makes its system to meet its requirements. The only way the system would be "underpowered" is if it couldn't do the things Nintendo wanted it to.

Nintendo is actually taking its customers finacial situations into account. That is why they try to make it consume little power and cost less. Also, I don't need 3 of the same damn system.

If all I wanted was power I would stick to the PC. Nintendo is the only company offering me something I can't get anywhere else.

ThePsychoGamer4933d ago (Edited 4933d ago )

"Unlike fanboys of the HD twins, Nintendo fans don't care who has the biggest numbers."

Oh, that must be why Nintendo fans on this site where constsitly talking about how powerful the system would be over the last year, cause they didn't care. /s

Nintendo fanboys play the number game just as much as any other fanboy, be it with specs or sales.

"Nintendo is the only company offering me something I can't get anywhere else."

If you honestly believe that Nintendo is the only company that offer unique experiences, then you yourself are a blind fanboy. Yakuza, LittleBigPlanet, Neptunia, Region Free gaming, and Uncharted, Journy, Heavy Rain all deliver great experiences unlike anything else offered by the PS3, And at the same time, Gears of War, Halo, Deadly Premintion, Infinite Undiscovery, and Blue Dragon are all experiences that unique to the 360

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7754d ago (Edited 54d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS53d ago (Edited 53d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer79d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi78d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer79d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot78d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno78d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay78d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno77d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK77d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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