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Mr Khan said:
kitler53 said:
$200 worth of tech in the console - $100 worth of tech in a controller - sell it at cost.

..seems reasonable enough to me. i just can't envision nintendo taking a loss...they'll lower their profit margin and cut corners in their hardware until it is at least a wash at a reasonable launch price.

The controller is definitely the variable, but i could conceivably peg it at under $100 for production costs. We are talking about something functionally inert like the Wii remote, such that it will have little if any onboard processing power or memory. The very high capacity streaming technology is likely the worst factor, because even the touch screen is older tech (same touchscreens as the DS/3DS as opposed to what's used in virtually everything else)

i not saying that it will cost $100 but maybe upwards of.  i'm just making an estimate of costs, afterall if i'm high all that proves is that nintendo doesn't need to sell at a loss. 

..but i don't think i'm that far off.  nintendo is taking a small loss on 3DSs right?  well they both have touch screens (the wiiU's is bigger), they both have a recharable battery, a camera, a mic, a speaker, accelerameters, a gyroscope...   so it's short the CPU or whatever, a second screen, and the 3D camera.  if $270 is a loss on the 3DS then $100 for a wiiU controller doesn't seem that high to me for how many feature are tit-for-tat.