How dare Nintendo!?! Who do they think they are, waltzing in and making money off the Wii at day one? Companies are supposed to lose money on consoles and not profit until months or years later! Yes, this post is dripping with sarcasm, but the actual information regarding the matter is pretty interesting.

From the article:

Nintendo of Canada exec Pierre-Paul Trépanier has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that the company is already raking in the cash following yesterday's launch of the Wii.

"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."

Read the full article over at eurogamer.net