Wii U Could Cost $600 At Release?

[Mummelmann]

HappySqurriel said:

Mummelmann said:
No, seems highly unlikely. I would guess a launch price of around 400$ myself.
The peripherals, however, will be insanely expensive, I shudder at the thought of the prices of controllers...
Then again, according to most Wii fans, price doesn't matter so the Wii U should kill everything, even at 600$ launch price.

I'm still not convinced the controllers will be nearly as expensive as people are predicting ... After all, a company has already announced that they're working on a $35 tablet for India and believe they can get the manufacturing costs down to under $10. Certainly, this will not be a good tablet but it should be a sign that the Wii U controller probably won't be sold for over $100; and, I would be betting on $80 to $100 with a bundled game like Wii Play.

One can hope, the price of controllers and peripherals is one of the greatest weaknesses of the Wii in my opinion. That, and costly games. When games are so much cheaper to produce on one platform, it makes little sense to charge more for them after a while (they have started releasing some under the "classics" label though).