| Turkish said: Accesory prices: Dock: $89.99 Leaves $130 for the main unit. What do u think about this, should the Joycons have just been regular cheap controllers? |
No... Lmao I think the Dock's manufacturing cost is somewhere between $3-7. Maybe 10 at the most. If you are wondering why the Dock cost so much money, from my understand it's because it's one of the ways Nintendo is making their money. Kimishima said the Switch will not be sold at a loss and this is a way to ensure that. You really think the controllers don't have a large profit margin as well? The console itself doesn't seem like it's making much of a nickel and dime on it's own. So there's like 250% profit margin for the Dock and still a decent one for the rest of it.
You can't seriously think the main unit costs $130 with all that tech? I mean I could be the one wrong in my calculation and manufacturing cost of the dock. This is soley assuming that it's just a chunk of plastic that can detect the Switch and has it's USB slots and HDMI slot. Keep in mind that HDMI Cables cost less than $2 to make have insane mark ups as well.
You don't actually need the dock anyways. So Nintendo selling it for premieum to maximize profits.
