| padib said: Interesting theory. I wonder how much the U would have costed if it was more popular and they could have reduced the price of components through mass-volume pricing and R&D improvements. But that's a reality for a different universe. |
Thank you!
It's true that your components providers are inclined to lower the cost of the components when your products is popular! Sadly, wii u wasn't but gc wasn't either, howbeit it had two huge price drops! Although that should have been because GC was anywise very cheap to produce and Nintendo had the lewway to slash its price and still profit, unlike the wii u, where the tablet controller costed 80$ alone...
Nintendo took a huge risk this gen, maybe wii financial and commercial huge success blinded them?
Anyway, I think that wii u was a good lesson for them. ;)
Do you think that because of the switch hardware nature, ( I mean it has mobile parts, mostly )reduction of manufacturing cost and price drops by extend would be easy, regardless the popularity ?
