Wii Launch and Price Revealed

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

But if the PS2 is any indication, $0 - $??, since the system launched for $300 (same price as Xbox a year later) and didn't require an extra device to activate it...

Right, but if you'll think back, Sony also lost hundreds of thousands of dollars within the first couple months of releasing the PS2 in Japan. Sony was underselling the system and expecting to make the money back on game software; but since the PS2 was cheaper than most available DVD players in Japan at the time people were just buying the system and not buying games (a situation that became worse during the two day period that people found out they were region free "by accident" before they could pull them from retail shelves).

Obviously this wouldn't be echoed with the Wii, but it is an indication that it costs a bit. I mean, it's not the actual cost to make Wii's play DVD's, it's the cost of buying a license to be allowed to make millions of Wii's that play DVD's.