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Re:Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Re... by kevingadd on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:27PM (#27168678)
AFAIK Nintendo is not necessarily in the business of losing money on hardware, especially if you count accessories like their controllers. I'd need to see numbers to believe that they lose money on the Switch, I suspect that thing is profitable.
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Re:Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Re... by majewsky on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:58PM (#27170040)
> I suspect that thing is profitable.

According to a Bloomberg article from January 2017 (just before the release of the Switch) concerning Nintendo's yearly earnings report,

> While game consoles are usually sold at a loss early in their life cycles, the Switch will be profitable from the start, Nintendo said.

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20170131084504/https://www.bloom... (the URL also works without web.archive.org, but the current version contains a paywall)

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