Teeqoz said:
Actually Reggie corrected that comment to "more than one unit of software". And the Wii U has received a 50$ pricecut since then. The Wii U also used dated tech, which means a mature process where there's not much more to make more efficient, so it won't have seen the same reduction in price that is normal for consoles. Using dated tech also impacts them in another way, because they are losing out on economy of scale benefits. There aren't many other products relying on the same manufacturing process, so costs will be high to convince foundries to keep a dated manufacturing process alive when there are newer, much more efficient manufacturing processes in existence (which is how the cost of electronics are reduced in the first place. Die shrinks.)
It's not like technology magically decreases in price automatically. It's all in relation to cost of production, and the Wii U wasn't well positioned to benefit from any of the processes that normally drive down costs. |
Wii u manufacturing cost must have not been decreased, given that its the only Nintendo console that hasn't gotten any price drop ( And for god's sake, don't talk about the 349$->299, because it's not real price drop, white 8gb version got discontinued and the black 32gb got its price, there was all along a 299$ costing wii u ;) ) , their reluctance to cut the price must imply that wii u manufacturing cost its still the same!
The only solution would be to drop the tablet controller which adds 80$ in the manufacturing cost, but now its late!
