Uh, those things should cost at most $30 total, still leaving $60 to the dock. That's still horrible value.

If I get a switch (very likely only if the change their mind about paid online) ill very likely sell the dock and the joycon grip and the other stuff scince im not interesting in the home console feature at all.

Sell everything for 100$ so the switch is 200$ seems to be right price. Im sure many people are interested in multiple docks so they can easily connect to multiple tvs.

At least in the past new consoles tried to justify their price by more powerful hardware than the cheaper 3 year old devices.

I guess. The home console part of the Switch is such a huge deal for me, so if I only had a Switch tablet I would easily pay 90 bucks to be able to play it on a TV.

Expensive or not it seems a great many are excited for this. I think Nintendo is banking on the fact that gamers will always crave new hardware no matter the price.

Um, this thing makes its predecessors, The Wii U and particuparly the 3ds, look like a joke. The screen quality is considerably better than any touchscreen Nintendo has made before, it can do, apparently, 1080p on the screen itself according to Nintendo a couple nights ago (contrary to what Digital Foundry said). It has a LOT more internal storage than the 3ds and has a LOT more room for future proofing with up to 2 TB micro sd cards room (MORE than probably triple what anyone would need on a Nintendo device). The interface is much improved, it only takes seconds to boot games up (the powerful ones at that), I would imagine the internet capabilities will be a lot better and I'd think with paid online that servers won't get shut down shortly after launch like Devil's Third. It has like smallest motion control devices I've ever seen (light, convenient) and from what I've heard they are about as 1:1 as you can get right now, unlike the wii motes or even wii motion plus which were massive by comparison and waggle toys more than anything.

Cause nonsense

oh yeah. kinda reminds me of the Wii situation but not as bad.

Hell I paid 400 for my PS4 and that came with Destiny the complete version.

yeah and we saw how well that did, kinda making his point for him

An HDMI cable and charging cord combined costs Nintendo maximum $2. The dock itself costs them no more than $10 to make, box and ship. So yes, still horrific.