Wii is the winner…
…financially and at the moment. While Microsoft has never made a nickle on Xbox hardware and Playstation 3 is speculated to cost $300 loss per unity for Sony, the Nintendo Wii is profitable from day one. Yes indeed, the device is the cheapest of the next-gen consoles and the only one with a profit margin. Of course, technologically the Wii is closer to the previous console genration than Playstation 3 so the profitability is not really that big of a surprise. What this means for the consumer? With Wii you get some air when you purchase, and with PS3 you get more than you actually paid for - at least in terms of hardware.
“We make a profit on the system itself,” Trépanier said. “Unlike our competitors, we don’t have ulterior motives; we’re not in it to sell HD TVs, or to become the operating system in the living room or anything like that.“We’re in the gaming business, and we have to make money from everything we sell - and we are making money from day one on the Wii.”
Source: GameIndustry.biz
