How is it possible that the X1 and PS4 are already basically the same price as a Wii U?

[JWeinCom]

Justagamer said:

JWeinCom said:
A few things...

Firstly, the Wii U's chipset is highly customized, which means they'll have to pay more for them. The chip was customized to keep energy consumption low... Stupid decision, but there you have it.

An extra LCD screen is going to bring up the price as well.

And of course, Nintendo at this point doesn't really need or want to take a loss leading strategy. Their best bet at this point is to try to make what money they can off of the Wii U, and try to push sales with game bundles rather than price cuts. The Wii U is clearly not competing with the PS4 or XBox One, so no need to get in a price war. Get what you can out of it in its last year.

I've never understood Nintendo's fixation on using the least amount of power as possible. I suppose it's a good thing environmentally, but when they're trying to sell systems, I've never known anyone that said, I'm getting the nintendo system, it uses the least amount of power. 

 

 And of course, the controller. The main reason the wiiu costs so damn much. So many bad choices with the wiiu, it's insane. 

For casual gamers, I think it's nice to have a smaller system.  The power consumption means less heat, which means less needs for fans, so it's smaller and quieter.  I think it's also more of a Japanese thing.  It's not a bad thing, but it wasn't worth the amount of power they had to give up for it.