Yes your right to a degree 360 struggled a bit at that price but it was a reasonable price and realistic.
As for the tablet Data winds cheap tablet retails at 65$ for normal customers or 35$ for students with Indian Government subsidies. I know Data wind barely turns a profit on the 65$ dollar model. Their tablet doesn't have near the features of the WiiU tablet.
What good tablets retail at 99$? And turn a profit? Every tablet I have seen retail at that price was a clearance when the company could no longer sell the device.
The current specs listed for the tablet will mean a manufacturing cost of at least 60-80$. But if Nintendo has more features we don't know about it could be even more expensive. The controller at least based on what we know about it is not a cheap or low end device.
As for the specs. When I said a loss on each unit due to graphical power I am talking largely R&D costs.
350$ is the cheapest I could see the console breaking even without Nintendo cutting corners. If Next Box launches at 400$ they will also be taking a loss.
I can understand why Nintendo would launch at 299$ but it is not a price that Nintendo can turn a profit on without cutting corners on hardware quality.
-JC7
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