----------------------------------------------------------------- Nintendo profits $100 per console, give or take. It's using utter trash hardware (about 1.5x the power of the old Xbox), therefore Nintendo is bending everyone over and you know what(ing) them even at a "deal" of $250. Nintendo is using the poor pricing of the PS3 and 360 to overcharge the consumer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- You're putting in negative terms what in business is a huge positive. Nintendo have broken the cost:value relationship. Nintendo may make a tidy profit off of each Wii (at launch, it was probably only a few bucks, but it will get up to 100 or more sometime this year I imagine), but consumers don't look at production costs when they assign value to things. To Superchunk: don't try to glorify Nintendo's awful 80s and 90s practices towards third parties. What was necesary was monopolizing the physical production of games through the lock-out chip. That prevented third parties from flooding the market with rip-offs of Nintendo's own games, as well as derogatory and pornographic games, and allowed the development of PlayStation's business model. 5-games-a-year and you-can-only-develop-for-us policies? Insulting to third parties, illegal, and things Nintendo is still recovering from in terms of third party relationships. Also, 10 and 12 years ago, it was Nintendo who was starting to up the price of games to 60USD, and it was PlayStation which singlehandedly kept the standard game price at 50USD for a whole extra DECADE. That's one of the huge accomplishments of PS which deserves accolades. To washimul: Let me guess: you don't like the 360?? If so, please continue to express that to us with ever less clever digs like "garb*** box 360".

Now, there is credible prediction about total retailer's order of GUMDAM MUSOU. "According to the prediction, the number of total retailer's order is about 140k. This is because the retailers are very concerned with lagging sales like VF5."