Ail said:
Take a standard controller that cost at best 25$ to produce and sells for 50-60$, this controller will cost 50$ to manufacture and will probably sell for 90-100$ ( retailers won't give up their margins on accessories either..).
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Now you may be overestimating the cost to produce standard controllers as well. They are high margin items as controllers have typically been. The Wii Remote for example, cost something like $9.83 (iSuppli) back in 2006.
With the additional components, I'm guessing the iSuppli estimate on each will be just under $40.
Since it sounds as though Nintendo isn't going to be trying to sell every Wii U owner 3 extra LCD controllers (if it only syncs with 2 controllers) they won't(can't) be relying upon Wii U controller sales to inflate overall hardware margins. Barring the occasional "oops, broke my controller" replacements, they'll only be selling Wii U owners one additional controller max.