sethnintendo said:
How does not including a SD/SDHC slot and going with their own proprietary save that much off the system's price? I would assume it saves them some money but it can't be more than a few dollars per system. Surely, the royalties for using SDHC can't be that much. I don't think the mass consumer proved anything. They bought a 360 arcade and then were left with the option of buying a 20 or so GB hard drive for a huge price. It may seem like a decent deal for those that don't download anything, install games, etc but for those that wanted to take full advantage of their system were in a for a huge wake up call. Basically, the consumers are lured in with cheap prices with crappy upgrade options. If anything Nintendo proved that not including a hard drive and going with SD/SDHC storage on the Wii was the far cheaper and superior option than buying a 360 arcade and then buying an official Microsoft hard drive. |
That wasnt my point at all. My point was that the profit on the "mandatory" accessory make up for the lack of profit on the system. And also that the mass consumers prefer buying something cheaper then spend money on the accessory. Funny as it may sound, they will get more sale by selling the system at 249$ + 50$ memory card then by selling the said system at 299$ including on board storage. I stated the Microsoft HDD strategy because its extremely similar. At the era Microsoft released the 360, they could have put an HDD, but it would have mean a higher entry price point as well as profit lost on sale of accessory. It was smart.
