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12/14/2006

Wii Manufacturing Costs Revealed

According to Toyokeizai and this price sheet, the Wii costs Nintendo approximately $158.30 to manufacture -- $195.99 wholesale price. What are your thoughts?
If these guys have done their sums right, Nintendo are making just under $40 profit on every Wii sold. At such an early stage of the consoles development, and with sales so healthy, that's good news for anyone at Nintendo that's involved in the counting, or spending, of money
[via Kotaku]

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Posted at 12/14/2006 6:15pm by Mike
So about $40 to the r&d of the system, makes sense.
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Posted at 12/14/2006 6:56pm by MR
Am I reading this correctly? PS3 costs $805 to produce and they sell it at wholesale for 1/2 of that? Can they really afford to make up profits in game sales?
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Posted at 12/14/2006 8:26pm by james
yea thats the jist of the ps3 they wont be able to sell a console for 800$
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Posted at 12/14/2006 11:05pm by romanu
$40 bucks ain't much of a profit either. Think of all the promotions, distribution, and all other costs - at least they ain't rippin us off. i expected profits of at least $80-100. I guess it's just me being money-thirsty.
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Posted at 12/15/2006 05:32am by 我不喜欢-Blog » Wii Manufacturing Costs Revealed
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Posted at 12/15/2006 09:51am by chris
Its amazing that they can make a profit, Does any one know if this is the first?
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Posted at 12/15/2006 11:02am by Myahon
Keep in mind consoles have ALWAYS been sold at a loss. Wii is the first in history to sell at a profit. Console makers make their profit from collecting a percentage of games they license to be sold on their console. Gamecube needed only 2 games per person sold to make a profit, PS3 will need..... much much more then normal it's mainly as a trojan horse for Blu Ray.
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