ethomaz said:
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osed125 said:
That's not a legit "source"...If the retail price is $100 it's still extremely expensive for a controller and of course they aren't going to sell it at stores because:
1) People are still confused about the Wii and the Wii U, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to buy the Gamepad thinking is for the Wii...so Nintendo is saving themselves a couple of law sues.
2) No game at the moment supports more than 1 Gamepad, so unless your controller breaks (which you can send to repair) there's no reason to buy a second controller.
Also compering the price of Japan and Europe is very ambiguous because everything is more expensive there compare to the U.S. If Gamepad cost $150 in Europe then I can definitely see the controller in the U.S costing as low as $100 (yes a $50 difference is extremely possible between both)
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You don't understand... there is no GamePad being sell in US... you have only unique options that is the replace per $85 directly with Nintendo... you give to them the old gamepad and they give you a new per $85.
Nintendo itself said the GamePad is expensive to manufacture.
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I know they aren't selling the controller at stores...I was just given examples as to why the decided not to.
Yes Nintendo said it was very expensive for a controller, iirc the 360 one cost like $20-$30 to manufacture and I imagine the Wiimote and the Dualshock are similar in price. So of course a $85 controller is more expensive...
