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Originally posted by: Deguello
Nemo... Seriously.
If you believe more technology went into making the DS than the Wii, so much so that the Wii should be significantly cheaper than it, you are absolutely loopy.
You are operating under a big list of great assumptions on your part.
1. You know how much the Wii costs to manufacture, and that it somehow costs in the realm of $100.
2. Nintendo is somehow obligated to sell at a tremendous loss just because their competitors do.
3. Size of product somehow dictates cost of product.
4. You probably also assume the Wii features the specs from a list of specs that has been repeatedly rebuked for simple problems as the presence of GDDR in place of the much widely advertised MoSys.
None of those are true. Yet you claim them all as fact and act like Nintendo is making a big mistake by offering the Wii under what you assume it costs them without any sort of source whatsoever to back up your claim. And you also continue to use troll-type language (lunchbox HURK HURK HURKITY HURK) that makes me question if you seriously enjoy posting at PGC.
1. I'm going by what the developer told the journalist.
2. Sorry, it's a fact, Sony and MS use a strategy of selling hardware at losses greater in cost than the Wii costs to manufacture in hopes of turning profit on software. It doesn't ever seem to make them more money than Nintendo but they are trying to buy Nintendo's consumers and put the N out of business.
3. The size does dictate price. The DS and PSP cost what they cost because the companies have spent money shrinking down that hardware to a portable size. The Wii is a console so size doesn't scare consumers away (unless they are biased Japanese), thus spending money to make something small is not needed like it is in portables. With a console the insides come before the casing.
With PS3, there is a lot of sh1t in there, and that is why the casing is so large. It has to have a lot of cooling, it has a harddrive, it has ports out the ass, it has lots of RAM, it has HD support, etc. Do not sit there and try and say the Wii is comparable in power to either the PS3 or 360 because it is not. I know this because developers have told me personally.
4. Read that last sentence in number 3. We all hope the final hardware will have more of everything but that is all one can do is hope because a lot of people are saying the thing is already well into production.