dahuman on 23 March 2009
| Baggins said: Of course it's overpriced. Nintendo make a fortune on each console sold. The components inside a Wii are virtually WORTHLESS in terms of their computational power. Only way ninty could be paying more than a few pennies for each Wii is down to licensing of IPcustom chips...even then I'm sure the cunning swines got themselves a good deal. Truth be told, there aren't many people on VGchartz who know what their talking about in terms of hardware costs and just how cheap and nasty the Wii is. It's actually the making of a great console and maybe mssony should have skimped like nintendo did. |
actually, in the computer world, the Wii cost is exactly where it should be if you only consider the hardware and not the market. 360 is barely breaking even, or loosing money and so is the PS3 while Wii makes money each time it's sold, by only a small margin, and the hardware does cost about that.
