Millennium said:
Joelcool7 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Since the Wii is already at a sweet spot for pricing, a cut will be when the price is no longer necessary to stay that high (as in the profit margin is so high, even a price cut will still make loads).
And it makes sense that Nintendo is courting developers. That's kind of what Sony did with the PS1. |
According to EAGames and Sega back when the Wii was first released. Nintendo would make a profit by selling the console as low as 170$. This means it costs less then 170USD to manufacture a Wii. So that means Nintendo is making about 100$ in pure profits off of every unit, and since its launch in 2006 hardware manufacturing costs will have gotten even cheaper. I wouldn't be suprised if Nintendo was making 150$ off of every console sold.
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Those rumors were pretty soundly debunked. While the Wii certainly made a profit at launch, the cost to make at the time was about $210, not "less than $170." The $170 crap was just another not-so-subtle insult from developers being all butthurt that the Wii wouldn't let them continue the graphics-are-everything philosophy.
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It was actually both. The initial reports didn't cover the price of including the Wiimote, Nunchuck, and Wii Sports.
