The 3DS teardown: Actual HW cost is $100

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Also, you guys think you've got it bad? This is the lowest price among the major retailers in Greece

http://www.public.gr/prod/gaming/consol ... 1222984pp/

I dare you to convert that to $

I read the price in euros and my jaw dropped.

I converted it to dollars and my balls dropped.

Woo, $400 nightmare!

[Jamisonia]

This article has gone viral and is showing up on every gaming website, with a ton of irate people bashing Nintendo for price gouging. I've noticed that there seems to be confusion between whether this $100 number is the cost to manufacturer a 3DS unit, or the cost for the raw materials. Some articles say its the cost to make a 3DS, some say its the aggregate cost for parts. Those are two very different numbers.

[Ivo]

This article has gone viral and is showing up on every gaming website, with a ton of irate people bashing Nintendo for price gouging. I've noticed that there seems to be confusion between whether this $100 number is the cost to manufacturer a 3DS unit, or the cost for the raw materials. Some articles say its the cost to make a 3DS, some say its the aggregate cost for parts. Those are two very different numbers.

In the first article it seemed pretty clear it was just the raw materials (without packaging and stuff like manual, even?), not the actual cost of manufacturing it.

Indeed, just assembling all the materials into a working unit is already going to be a higher value depending on how technical it is to assemble.

Ivo.