Reggie was misquoted when he said Wii U profitable after one game

[bananaking21]

osed125 said:

bananaking21 said:

osed125 said:

bananaking21 said:

osed125 said:

bananaking21 said:

Kresnik said:
Well, that's not good news for the price of PS4 and Nextbox :(

from the price of the WiiU controller in japan im pretty sure thats adding alot of cost to producing the console, also add that the WiiU is using a custom made property format to read disc and im betting that will cost them more. blueray for sony would cost less now since its been on the market for a while and they managed to bring production of the thing down with the ps3

The GamePad apparently cost aprox. $100 in the U.S.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=151013&page=1

yeah its pretty expensive, if the WiiU came without it then it would have cost about 200/250 bucks. which is pretty cheap

Two things are possible: 

1) Controllers are usually sold at high profits. IIRC the 360 cost like $20-$30 to make, but it's sold at $60. So there's a possibility the Wii U is using a similar strategy.

2) The GamePad does cost aprox. $100 to manufacture and Nintendo is selling it at the same price (or losing money on it).

As a side note, the console would have cost more than $250/$200, since in the final price of the console it always includes packing, shipment and those stuff. 

well if point 2 is the case which i believe is, that means that sony/ms can release a console that provides a significant leap in terms of power at a 400$ price point

If neither of both companies includes a high price peripheral like the Kinect or Move, there is a high chance of a "big" leap in power. But we need to keep in mind on how much money Nintendo is losing on the Wii U and if all that money is from the GampePad or the console itself. Too many variables at the moment.  

i agree, to many variables