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baloofarsan on 13 February 2015
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Captain_Yuri said:
baloofarsan said:
Captain_Yuri said:
Materia-Blade said:

And it did increase the price by a large margin. A replacement gamepad costs $150

 

 

Here is an old breakdown from almost two years ago.

http://www.destructoid.com/cnn-estimates-the-cost-of-wii-u-s-parts-to-be-228-249435.phtml

 The GamePad alone is valued at $79.25, 

Replacing this with a classic controller that costs around $15

http://bgr.com/2013/11/26/xbox-one-teardown-bom/

That makes for a reduction in price of less than $65 (almost a much as a bundled game)

Yea and then u have the licensing fees since Nintendo partnered with Broadcom (I believe) to create the zero latency streaming, R&D and a whole lot of other stuff which could have been far less if they didn't go the way they did with the gamepad. But yea, they goofed a lot this generation which is a shame cause the games are great

I have struggled to come up with an answer to what Nintendo should have done three years ago to avoid this disaster, but has not managed to come up with any good answer.

Some time ago we had a thread on this forum asking if what our recollections was of the time before the launch of the eight generation. Most, of course, stated that they knew Playstation would win. I am not so sure the managers at Sony was so sure. The managers at MS was not sure, cause they betted on the Wii route to be the future: TV, TV, TV - casual-Kinect games - Family Entertainment - Xbox Fitness - Spielberg's Halo exclusive to Xbox Live. 

Three years ago when it was to be decided how the new consoles should look like gamers was mass emigrating to mobile gaming. Ipads was everywhere, Call of Duty seemed to be the only remnant left of the dedicated gaming industry, game sales had been declining for a couple of years, Xbox 360 was eight years old tech and people was starting to doubt if MS and Sony even were interested in producing new hardware. I could not have given any advice to those that had to come up with new hardware.I had no idea that the right answer was "MORE of the SAME".