Just turned back my 100th snes customer

[sethnintendo]

Darc Requiem said:

RolStoppable said:

The SNES Mini is so cheap because NIntendo has no clue. The people who manage to get one pay next to nothing for it.

If Nintendo had gotten their act together, the SNES Mini in this configuration would be $149, not $79. What Nintendo is doing is pretty much the equivalent of a pub serving the best beer in town and selling their beer at half the price of all competition. Of course that drives up demand to a ridiculous level and scalpers will be able to get $150 for each SNES Mini, because that's what most people would have been willing to pay anyway.

IIRC they don't make money on the Mini. It costs them like $77 to make. Retailers just stock for the increased foot traffic.

So are you just pulling numbers out of your ass or do you have an actual article to back your claim up?  I highly doubt these units cost more than $50 for the licenses of 3rd party games, manufacture and shipping of the units.