Wii U Could Cost $600 At Release?

[Roma]

Zlejedi said:

Roma said:

Zlejedi said:

Slimebeast said:
Ridicilous article. It will cost no more than $300.

Only if it's underpowered to the levels of X360/PS3

You need to think about the HDD and BR player that adds to the cost of the PS3 and if they are making a profit now with all of that in there then the WiiU can be more powerful than them even if it ends up on 300$ Nintendo might even take a loss on it. Whatever the cost of those things is it will be added to the power of the WiiU because it won’t feature DVD/BR or a hard disk as big as any of the HD consoles

 

Does anybody know how much Sony is making on each PS3 sold?

I think they already confirmed they are changing to BR like media but without movie playing abilities.

Also if they don't include any kind of storage to the console they would be capitulating in direct distribution wars from the start.

 

BTW isn't it funny how so many people don't read it's Australian price? ;)

Yes it will use 25gb discs as well as (rumoured or confirmed not sure) have 8gb of flash memory but as they did with 3DS they added a 2gb ds card in every unit and they can do the same with WiiU. Maybe a 32gb sd card which wont cost them much at all.

 

As for the PS3 price as you can see below

"by August 2009, Sony had reduced costs by a total of 70%, meaning it only costs Sony around $240 per unit." 

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And now 2011 will end and WiiU won’t be out until late next year and by that time the cost of PS3 will be closer to 100$ for Sony to make (note not sell). 360 will be even cheaper lol

So if Nintendo really does make it just as powerful as PS360 and sell it for 250$ (including the cost of U-pad of course which will probably cost them around 60-70$ they will still make a profit.

So lets say they add 100$ making it a total of 350$ and selling it with no profit and no loss they can make it a lot more powerful than the HD twins with the technology that is out there today.

 

Yeah I missed that one too