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I believe the controller itself is 99, wich makes the WiiU a 199 console. Seems reasonable if you think about the prices of the 360 and PS3 hovering around that mark(after pricecut for ps3) and graphically they're on the same level.

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way more powerful now means about 20%...
also $200 for console is meh, most consoles sell hardware at a loss, but nintendo doesn't like doing that, so i would say IF nintendo followed the route of selling at a loss it would be $200 for everything, but it's nintendo. so $200 for console and $100 for controller sounds like them.

Is the tech in the pad really worth $100?? lots of money for a screen with buttons.

Weird, my PS3 and Xbox 360 also came with controllers that, when sold separately, cost around 50 bucks. I suppose the consoles are cheaper than I thought!

Nintendo is losing money! That must mean they care about us!

no because they make a lot of money with controllers so i think the controller is "much" cheaper to produce but if you buy the console with controller i think they didn't calculate the controller for the same price to get the $300 price tag. i think they maybe calculated the controller below $100 for the set with console.

Controllers are normally sold for huge profit. I doubt the wii U controller cost more then $80 to manufacture, in fact I remember a breakdown of its components coming to $50. like any accessory, its gonna be sold with a huge profit margin, for an accessory which at the moment is considered a complete luxury and with no mass market demand, expect nintendo to be selling at over %200 of its cost.

Wii U system itself probably cost just under $199 taking into account the fact that it has no HDD and is using 2008 technology.

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I meant wii U* :)