If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 hours agoAs I understand it, none of the consoles are loss leading these days.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think they lost the appetite for loss leading around the time the PS4 and Xbox One came out. I have no insider information, but this is what I tend to hear from those that do. Nintendo famously doesn’t loss lead, and that’s a long standing policy, but the latest word on Switch 2 is that their price increase keeps them profitable but with smaller margins than they had when it initially launched.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
Well, yeah, were a decade into the generation. If you’re still manufacturing a console at a loss 10 years after release you fucked up huge somewhere