Biggest issue with Nintendo when they are successful is that they become too greedy

[Mummelmann]

Wman1996 said:

Mummelmann said:

For me, the biggest issue is pricing on software and peripherals, it's crazy to charge full price after years on the market for games. When the Wii released, the cost of a single controller was almost half that of the console itself.

I agree with most of that, but what do you mean by the Wii pricing? The Wii was $250. A Wii Remote was $40, a nunchuck was $20. $60 is a lot less than $250, or even $200.

Are you talking about production costs? I don't know about the Wii, but I know the Wii U GamePad was a huge part of that console's cost (about half, at least later on).

A Wii was about 2500NOK when it released at home, a Wii-mote  + Nunchuck was around 1100NOK. Regional pricing, another staple of Nintendo's less successful policies, from a consumer standpoint anyway. As for the games part I mentioned, I remember when Super Mario Galaxy 2 released, the first one was still full price in retail stores (and mostly online as well). This is why my library of Switch games is so small, it's just too expensive.

Also; the Switch Pro Controller cost me around 900SEK when I got my Switch, about 50% more than an Xbox One controller or DS4 controller. In all fairness though, the Pro Controller is much better than both in my opinion.