Soundwave on 07 May 2014
| ToraTiger said: What I find hard to believe is that this under powered, low spec, system with a controller made like a kid toy was ever being sold at a lost. It can't just be me right? What are they making the system out of, silver? The 360 was made 9 years ago, and they never sold that at a lost, and the Wii U isn't much ahead in terms of graphics, and the CPU is actually weaker. |
360 was sold at a loss initially actually.
Wii U is expensive because Nintendo's insisted on heavily customized components ... for example if Nintendo wanted 360-ish graphics performance that's no problem and very cheap for AMD to provide. But Nintendo wanted that in a small casing size that only used 33 watts of electricity ... now with all those requirements, such a chip has to be made from scratch and that means its expensive.
Also a giant touch panel on the controller didn't help with costs.
