[citation][nom]beamthegreat1[/nom]too expensive? Are you a frickin janitor or what?? even of it cost 100 to make, the advertising, R&D, marketing, labor, tax, and wholesale price would probably cost them an extra 100 which will leave them with onlly 50$ profit which is only 25% which is very low compared to other products. So shut up all of you cheap bastard who thinks that the company should sell them for no profit.[/citation]
lets look at it this way, lets assume that over a a consoles development time, r&d is 1 billion before launch, thats probably WAY more than a hand held costs to r&d but its an example
lets say that they are makeing about 100 pure proffit in america, and about 150 in japan.
before the first revision, im betting the system will sell 10-15 million, that is at minimum 1-1.5 billion proffit alone off console, not even taking into consideration the money they get per game sold for the system.
and by the end of the cycle this system will have sold close to 50million minimum. assuming that its going to be about 100$ profit world wide, for the consoles life that is 5 billion total.
and also, nintendo i don't believe r&d ed the screens, they r&d ed putting them in, but the tech itself.
if this 101$ is anywhere close, we are grossly overpaying for it, and i doubt that zelda would convince me to buy one, knowing that the above is true, nintendo put out decent tech and made money off its sale, they always have, but damnit, not at almost double the cost it takes to make, its the same reason i will not buy a tablet, or ipod, its hoe much you grossly overpay.
is it good, hell yea
but if this is true, i cant justify it at this price, though easily justifiable at a 50$ nintendo poffit (150-200$).