Would a Slimer and Seeker Wii U Gamepad remodel help increase Sales?

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tak13 said:

tak13 said:

Yes,only if that means a price drop!Manufacturing cost of wii u is 180$,from which the 80$ is the manufacturing cost of the tablet!

If they can find a way to make a 50$ gamepad it would be good!Wii u would cost 269$ and that essentially isn't a price cut as you just revise a component of the console and making it cheaper,by this the manufacturing cost-console cost difference stays the same with the diffence of the previous...119$!

Consequently,you get the same profits despite having wii u by 30$ cheaper as you just cut the manufacturing cost by redesigning the tablet!

I forgot to say that this also would give a bigger room to nintendo for future price drops!:P

For example if ninty finally does what it did for gamecube ,i.e two consecutive price drops of -50$ -50$,that with a revised cheaper tablet would allow nintendo to go even lower than 199$ if it wants,to 169$(Killer price)...So -30$ by  making the tablet cheaper and still making the same money(as you just cut the manufacturing cost and by extend the price) along with two future price cuts of 50$ would be extremely benignant!

I highly doubt that we'll see price cuts that deep durring the Wii U's lifespan, it would really make people angry who bought it at the 350/300 price tag, myself included. Most of the people who have already bought a Wii U are Nintendo's core audience, and pissing off your core audience wouldn't be smart. I for one would be quite leerly of buying future Nintendo consoles if 3-4 years later they're going to be 50-60% cheeper, and by then with a much more robust library of games.