Max King of the Wild said:
sundin13 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
You can say I'm wrong all you want. All I need to do is point to sales that are less than the gamecube. As for price.... I think you need to do research. Nintendo sold a replacement with no retail markup for $150. Now tell me, if it doesn't add much more then why is it tripled the price of controllers that are sold at retail?
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nintendo sold that replacement for so much
a. because no one really had reason to buy the controller because multi controllers werent supported
b. controllers always have ridiculous mark up
C. because they could
Like I said, look at what the controller is. Its a normal controller with a resistive screen and some extra plasic. The plastic is neglible in price and resistive screens are dirt cheap. The 360 controller costs 11$ to make and yet it sold for 50$ or more. Thats a 5x mark up. Attach a 5x markup to Wii U controller and it'll be worth 30$ and that is without factoring the fact that nintendo wasn't marketing their controllers to a mass audience. They really didn't want to sell them.
Argue that without saying "but...it costs 150$" please
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Okay, since you are still in denial. Profitable ps3 model with 12gb =$199.99. Nintendo was losing money on the hardware at $349.99. SWhat drives up costs that much? Hm? Sure, slightly better specs would factor in but so would an controller that is "valued at $79.25." http://www.destructoid.com/cnn-estimates-the-cost-of-wii-u-s-parts-to-be-228-249435.phtml
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I really do not know why Nintendo thought it would be a great idea to have 1/3 cost of the console be towards the controller. There is no one but Nintendo to blame for the state of the WIi U. I still love mine but ugh.
