I highly doubt they have recouped the R&D costs of making the console and platform at $40-80 per unit. So, yes, at a loss. Looking at the BOM and calling it a day is the shallowest way to evaluate if something is sold at a gain or loss.
> To drive people to play the exclusives?
Nintendo? The major game studio that famously only releases their first party titles on their own platform? Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the reason their entire hardware lineup exists and has ever existed.
> TBH I won't engage further in this line.
Not that you've been engaging in anything but dismissals without substance in this entire post.
Just like the number one console, the Switch? Sold at a loss? To drive people to play the exclusives?
TBH I won't engage further in this line.