DKII on 20 May 2007
The Wii does have high-end technology in it, just not the way you'd expect. The processor and graphics chip aren't powerful but they're tiny which is actually pretty expensive to produce. The estimates are $160 to manufacture just for the console, then you tack on the sensor bar, remote, nunchuk, and wii sports, then shipping costs and retail markup and they're not really making as much profit per console as you might think. In fact the only reason it was $250 and not $200 was because the retailers wanted a bigger profit margin for a new console.
