Filed in archive Wii by John B on December 14, 2006

According to Nintendo-Inside.jp and sourced by a forum member at NeoGAF, the nintendo wii costs around 158 US dollars to manufacture. This is only for the console itself, not the controllers, and obviously doesn't include marketing, research, shipping and the loads of other costs that go into a console's creation. Nintendo is the only next-gen hardware manufacturer that's actually turning a profit off the sales of its systems. Both Microsoft and Sony actually swallow some cash each time a PS3 or Xbox360 is sold. It goes to show what that the $250 you plunked down for your system paid for.

Graphic chip - 29.60

CPU - 13.00

DRAM - 7.80

Optical disk drive - 31.00

Power supply - 11.30

Manufacturing cost - 19.50

Total cost - 158.30

Wholesale price - 195.99

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Response from: Michael Kwan (12/14/06 7:52pm)

I wonder how much the Wii-mote and Nunchuk cost...

Response from: John B (12/14/06 9:36pm)

If the percentages are anything alike, the nunchuk would cost 12.64 and the wiimote just over 25.

Response from: reden (12/15/06 2:56am)

My goodness thats an expensive console. How does it stack up against the xbox360?

Response from: Michael Kwan (12/18/06 11:13pm)

reden, I don't have the hard numbers, but I know that both Microsoft and Sony were/are *losing* money on the launch versions of their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively. I'm pretty sure Microsoft is in the black now, but there were in the red at launch, just as Sony is now with the PS3. Nintendo is the only one to *profit* right from the get go.

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