1. If that's true then that is nothing short of laughable.

2. English cannot be the first language of the person that wrote that article.

I dont really think they cost THAT much.As someone said in another thread, these estimates are usually on the higher end, and Nintendo could certainly offset some of the costs due to sheer shipment unit requested(the more you order to manufacture, the less each unit costs to make).Having said that, I dont think Nintendo is making any money off of them.

Maybe to you, I feel like they have tons of potential.

First of all I don't see how these controllers could cost anywhere near that much. Maybe they do cost a lot for some reason that I can't fathom which is why the retail for a lot, but Nintendo is definitely making a profit selling them separately, there's no way they cost $90 to make.

Secondly, this thread has devolved into "hey they should make the switch another failure like the Wii U". Seriously people, you want Nintendo to take out all of the things that make the Switch marketable?!?! And have to increase costs by producing multiple version of the same system, each version much less marketable than what they currently have. Not to mention if you did some of these things you'd have to take out motion control and hd rumble which would mean you are changing the communication between user and system (inputs/outputs) for some versions of the system which means games that rely on those things would no longer be playable with all versions. So you'd have a very confusing group of Switch products for consumers to try to figure out and then even worse you'd split up the software available. Your suggestions are the absolute worst thing Nintendo could do. All because maybe the controllers cost a lot to make?!!

Get real people.

That price seems improbable to me :/

no point in a camera on one of the joycons and hd rumble lol

It's not about you or me; HD Rumble is simply not a big system seller, they would have been better off dumping it to either sell the system for less and hence sell more, or make more money per unit sold.

They made mistakes defining costs. If it was $90 for a pair of joycons, then the retail price would be more to buy separate.

Doubt it.

Second variation doesn't make sense, because that's basically Switch, but totally make sense to have smaller Switch just for handheld playing, so basically what you wrote but without connection to TV.

Hardly Nintendo should sell them two for $80 if they dont have any profit, that's accessory and console companies best profit usually have on accessories.