"That's sure an expensive GPU for a reduced and overclocked Flipper."

Compared to estimated 140$ for the initial cost of the GPU in 360/PS3 its a steal . You have to remember that you will always need to pay high initial cost for custom chips like that and they use some pretty expensive RAM, I don't think that all of it is included in the 7.9$. Besides I think the differences between Wii and Gamecube are primarily located in the GPU which has a Gamecube mode and some Wii extensions. 

They forgot the Wii-mote, nun-chuck, stand and sensor bar that comes with the Wii.

My understanding is the controllers are not cheap to manufacture.



However, surely costs have come down for all of it some since Dec 2006.

^no they didn't. the total cost is 158.3 but the components listed don't add up to that number so it's probably included in the gap.

So... DMC4 for Wii anyone?

What do you mean by that? Do you mean all Wii games should look better than the GC, even though Nintendo has made no requirement of that? It's only recently that developers are really pushing the system. Brawl has graphics just as intensive as Twilight Princess, but at doulbe the framerate, which is already beyond what the GC can do.

Plus previews of some games would certainly be beyond the GC, if the graphics hold up (although many game previews mean I'm not holding my breath). 

Possible, but Capcom will not do it.

BTW, many of the early games by third parties run in almost Gamecube mode, that means, they're just using the 24MB of RAM like in the cube. Also, if you check the Wii SDK, you'll notice that it's pretty much not updated from the Cube SDK. That's why there's not so many great stuff out there. I heard somewhere that EAD and Sora are updating it with what they've learned from developing Galaxy and Brawl.

No. The producer or director said he doesn't think it would work (same as one of the heads of the Bionic Commando remake). People have just been twisting it to mean all of Capcom due to whishful thinking.

These are often the same people who say "the Wii can't have every AAA game", as though they Wii was getting loads of the AAA 3rd-party games, when all we want is the Wii to get SOME.

the bottom line has to be close because the wii sells for $250.00 and reports across the board say Nintendo was making $ 50.00 on every Wii at launch! so $ 200.00 manufacturing costs is close plus mark up for retailers

DMC4 with extra content for the Wii would be nice.