Oh, I don't think Gamepad is that expensive to produce, I just think it's different business philosophy than MS/Sony- Nintendo is printing money from day 1 with the price they set, just like with Wii.

i though Nintendo were having a small loss with Wii U at first~http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/25/wii-u-console-to-sell-at-a-loss-nintendo-confirms/

I think it might be just little bit underpowered for straight lazy ports with no additional tweaking for some games - I'm sure all devs will figure out soon how to navigate through new grounds, and make WiiU version as good or better than PS360 - if there's interest in their titles on WiiU, that is, which off course depends on WiiU's user base. As for ports from NexTwins - that might be bit more difficult, depending on the game, but I guess it again comes to interest of users to buy those ports, which CoD titles nicely demonstrated on Wii.

Yeah, I remember that report - lying bastards LOL

Honestly, with those components inside I don't see how they can be loosing money, but if they say so, so be it....guess we'll have build cost report soon from somewhere.

Yeah it's probably better to wait for that instead, as i'm sure they said this about 3DS at first but then we found out they were actually making a $120 profit  on each unit! It wouldn't be too surprising if that was the case

The parts are only part of the cost of the hardware. For example the 3DS tear down came up with something like $150 and they where loosing money at $170 so $30 or more is for labor, logistics, packaging, etc. So the hardware will be lower than the price but there are other costs involved that add a cost on top of everything.

Ok, thanks.

The PS3 numbers have always been that high. The problem is that such power can not be properly used for videogames and ends being wasted.

About WiiU being sold at a loss... well, as always, it depends on what you count. If we only look at the materials then it's obvious that it is sold at a profit, but if you add the other cost (such as the R&D that they have invested developing it), then they may be losing a bit of money on the 8Gb model, I'm confident that the 32GB is sold for a profit.

The parts came to $100, Everything else ended up more than $70 resulting in a loss; that's assembly, packaging, shipping, wholesale cut, retail cut. This same logic brought me to Vita more than likely selling at a profit or break even as the Vita's $160 parts breakdown provided it a larger cushion for the logistical costs. The 3DS would have to be selling a huge loss if the Vita was selling at a loss and since 3DS is now profitable again it would be near impossible for the manufacturing costs to go down low enough for that.

Whatever the Wii U cost breakdown is we can add on at least $100 considering 3DS was over $70 and the Wii U is larger and has more parts.

Oh, it just seems that numbers for its GPU are too high in wiki - I found on other places it's actually 211.2 GFLOPS.

Source? What I see until now is the ports are having issues because the devs not changed the mode the memory is used... get the PS360 code and run in Wii U without changed to do a better use of eDRAM.

Yeap... the dev have to change the game to use the Wii U better.