Wii U hardware no longer sold at loss, apparently

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ToraTiger said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

I think whats really costing them is the whole 0 latency thing between the wiiU and the gamepad... Not even Nvidia shield or the vita can have as much low latency as the wiiU and the gamepad while streaming games and I am sure the tech is quite impressive for that... So theres that, then there is the wiiU hardware itself and the gamepad also has a bunch of things such as a nice camera, mic, speakers, IR blaster, nfc, touchscreen, headphone jack, volume control, wii motion sensor (the bar thing inside the gamepad), battery, accelerometer, gyroscope and its also a controller itself... So I think the cost adds up

The latency thing is impressive, but it's just wireless streaming.  I've been doing that with my PC for the last three years.   The gamepad is only single touch, you need to use a stylus, I can't imangine that screen was expensive to manufacture.  The speakers and headphone jack won't drive the price up much.  The Wii U has basically the same motion features as a Wii Remote,  so I can't see why the tab itself should amount to  100- 150$.

What I ment by the wii motion thing on the gamepad is that it has

that thing built inside the gamepad as well as one that comes with the console itself... I think the cost makes sense to me with all the things that it has. Is it fully justifyable to have every one of those things? Probably not. And yea its wireless streaming, but its propriatary wireless streaming that was made by a joint thing between Broadcom and Nintendo and I really do think it adds up. Sure its not multi-touch but the hardware itself is fully customized and etc. I am not saying the gamepad is zomg impressive... I am just saying there are a lot of things in both the gamepad and console that ramp the cost up. But I don't really know how much each of those things cost so who knows

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