How Much Will the Wii U Controller Cost?

[oniyide]

HappySqurriel said:

oniyide said:

yeah but you have the damn weirdos who swear that it would have been to expensive to do back then and that the technology did not exist, like adding an extra gyro would have bumped up the cost that much, damn apologists 

The reality is that we really don't know what the Wiimote cost to manufacture, or what the cost of adding motion plus would have been; and we don't know how that increased cost would translate at retail ...

Consider that accessories are high margin products for retailers to compensate for consoles being sold at cost; I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the retailer received 50% or more of the purchase price of an accessory. On top of this, there are countless costs that are never considered by people when they make claims on what an accessory or system costs, so the manufacturers margin on these products also remain high to cover these costs associated with selling a system; and I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer margin on an accessory was 50% or more of what they sell it to retailers for.

So we have

manufacturer margin = cost of manufacturing
retailer margin = (cost of manufacturing) + (manufacturer margin)
price of controller = (cost of manufacturing) + (manufacturer margin) + (retailer margin)
price of controller = 4 * (cost of manufacturing)

Hypothetically speaking, if adding motion plus increased the cost to manufacture by $5 it would translate into a $20 increase at retail in order to maintain everyone's margin.

 

My initial point that was completely missed is that the Wiimote (probably) cost as much or more to manufacture than the XBox 360 or PS3 controller did and yet people call Nintendo "greedy" for selling it for less than either other controller.

fair enough, im not one of those guys who think Ninty was greedy. As for your scenario 20 dollar increase is not that much, i would have spent the 20 extra to have a motion controller that actually works well from day 1