Weak sales for Wii U

[prowler]

My GF bought a Wii-U. It looks nice and has some nice features and is definitaly a step up from the old Wii. Her biggest complaint is the lack of titles available that she is interested in. This just backs up some of the existing comments on the lack of titles existing which is most likely one of the main reasons for the slow uptake of the new console. I also find it annoying how software houses use it as a cop out because someone there couldn't be bothered porting to the platform since they will only make a small profit rather than a big one.

I have worked for companies where we have picked up tenders for running and supporting products because the parent company was only making a small profit on it. One company I remember was 'only' making a profit of about $100,000 a month for a particular product and it just wasn't worth their time to keep supporting it. It happens.

[prowler]

Only $100,000 per-month is less than 20 to 30 peoples wages per-month. Got more than people to pay than you're bringing in? Then they're losing month every month.

That's just simple maths, everyone complains about it being a profit driven and greedy industry but if you can't pay people then the company goes bust... then everyone complains about how they were too stupid to manage their finances.

As I stated, the $100000 was profit, not the amount that they made from it. The product was actually pulling in over a million dollars a month and the $100000 was what was left after all the expenses of the business was paid for.

Also, once the company I worked for got the tender, we managed to grow the business which ended up bring in even more revenue. The company we got the tender from commented they were surprised by this (though not upset as they liked the extra money) and then proceded to to tell us the reason they were surprised was because they felt the product was basically dead and had given up on it.