Nintendo Creating a New Console for Emerging Markets, Including China

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@Justiceiro

I know that Brasil is a f'ed up place to live with a lot of issues and yet I am surprised that 3DS costs the same as in Europe... While some consoles that are produced in your country have nearly identical prices and even cheaper... Minimum wage in eastern european countries is like 400-500$ with normal wages being a 1000$...

At first glances Nintendos idea is smart yet it is going to fail as 3rd party developers will either ignore it or make very cheap ports of old/outdated games... Zeebo failed in Brasil and other south american countries... Right?

Only viable option I see for Nintendo is to make a cheaper sku by moving production to other fabrication fabs and use smaller processing node to reduce size of chips thus cheaper production. I think Nintendo could drop Wii Us price considerably if they put enough effort. In the end Wii U could cost just 300-400$ if Nintendo manages to execute it.

Nintendo could at least make game printing facilities in brasil...