Love wii, hate Nintendo!

[mike_intellivision]

321tttrini4everz said:
the only thing i hate about nintendo is their products are way toooo expensive


"According to the Financial Times, this direct profit per Wii sold may vary from $13 in Japan to $49 in the United States and $79 in Europe."

that stopped me from buying a wii...wii just cost $200($us) to make..a $30 price cut will be dam good

 

Nintendo cannot subsidize its efforts from other divisions like Sony and Microsoft have been doing.

The European profit I imagine is as much do to currency conversion as anything else.  Also, some of that may have been eaten away by increases in transportation costs over the last couple of years. Finally, the Japanese Wii does not come with Wii Sports while the North American and European/PAL units do. That makes me wonder if the FT (or someone) is putting an arbirtarily low value on the pack-in game. The profit is much different if you price it at $10 (the value based upon WiiPlay) or $30 (the amount most third parties charge for a similar style game) or $50 (the top price for a standard Wii game).

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

PS -- @321... Who is that soccer fan in your sig and why did you shrink her pix?