Wii my love

According to Macquarie Securities analyst David Gibson, Nintendo makes $6 USD operating profit on each Wii unit sold, making it the only "next-gen" console to make a profit on the actual unit.

The analyst also noted that Sony makes a decent sized loss on each PlayStation 3 sold and that Microsoft has the potential to break even on each Xbox 360 console sold, but still may not.

Besides making profit on each console, the Wii sells the most software of the new consoles, selling an estimated 220 million units for 2008. The PS3 and Xbox 360 are estimated to sell under 130 million units each.

Nintendo also capitalizes on its position in the market by selling 60 percent of the Wii games itself compared to only 15 percent for Sony and 30 percent for Microsoft. The Wii's top selling games are all developed by Nintendo.

Hiroshi Kamide, director of research at KBC Securities, Japan, added, "The key thing about Nintendo is they want their things to be at price points that anyone can respond to."
If you live in New York and happen to wander into the Nintendo World Store you’ll be greeted with this–an ordinary looking Nintendo Wii but with some sort of extraordinary hard drive storage solution rigged up to it. As you can tell from the video, it’s got a huge library of full version Wii games that you can summon at the touch of a button. Browsing is simple and elegant. This is just the sort of thing that gamers have been clamoring for, and the fact that this special Wii demo unit can support a hard drive and works so wonderfully well with it tells us that the Wii is fullycapable of working with an external hard drive. And you can only reason that it’s not on the market is because Nintendo wants it that way, not because they can’t do it.

Nintendo's upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wii MotionPlus accessory attaches to the end of the Wii Remote and, combined with the accelerometer and the sensor bar, allows for more comprehensive tracking of a player’s arm position and orientation, providing players with an unmatched level of precision and immersion. Every slight movement players make with their wrist or arm is rendered identically in real time on the screen, providing a true 1:1 response in their game play. The Wii MotionPlus accessory reconfirms Nintendo’s commitment to making games intuitive and accessible for everyone
How awesome would that be?  I love my wii and I look forward to where it will go.  I hope they continue to put out family friendly and educational games for their systems.  If you haven't tried a wii out, you're missing out on a lot of fun.