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Nintendo of Canada's Pierre-Paul Tr
panier spoke with GamesIndustry.biz today about the profitability of the Wii, which unlike its competitors actually makes money off of console sales.
"We make a profit on the system itself," Tr panier 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."
Ooo, burn. He has a point, of course. A company that only sells video games has to profit off of them. Even if Nintendo only makes $1 for every Wii sold they are still ahead of Sony, who lose $200-300 on every system. Tr panier went on to discuss supply issues, the Canadian market, and possibly the most suprising bit of Wii information yet.
"And the great news is the feedback we're getting from media and consumers and all of our research is that the Nintendo Wii really is the pretty girl at the party this year."
Wait, it's a girl? But I thought, with the...you know. I guess that would explain why it's not physically attached.
"We're making money from day one" - Nintendo exec [GamesIndustry.biz]
