Wiis DVD drive is not exactly a standard one for 2 reasons: 1. It can use 2 sizes of discs (something that slot loaders don't usually do). 2. It reads the discs from the end to beginning (or at least the GC discs), so that discs are an "mirror image of std DVD discs". At least it has its own firmware. It's hard to compare the retail prices, because diffent products have different costs and different profit marginals for retailers (and manufacturers). Wii should have had a price of 200, also outside Japan, but it was the retailers who wanted bigger profit. So they included Wii Sports and raised the price by 50. And Nintendo HQ has said, that Wii makes profit by every console sold, so i don't know what Perrin Kaplan is talking about. Anyway, the price comes from manufacturing (this includes parts), logistics (including toll fees), retailers profit margins, manufacturers profit margins and taxes. If you are able to manufacture the product enough, manufacturing gets cheaper. If you can ship enough products or get product going with another products, so it uses the "anyway empty space", you are able to get shipping at lower price. And if you can sell the product with enough volume, you can lower the profit margin and make even bigger profit. And BDs aren't as durable as DVDs or HD-DVDs. Btw, Kwaad, you mean GC price in CAD?
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
