Miyamoto: PS4/Xbox One "easily $100 more if they came with Gamepad"
Part of Wii’s success, I think most would agree, was its $250 price, which made it hundreds of dollars less expensive than competing systems for years. Sony’s PlayStation 4 is going to debut only slightly more expensive than the Deluxe Wii U. Do you think you’d capture more of the audience you sold the Wii to if you could get the Wii U Deluxe model’s price down by $100? Even $50?
Unfortunately, I’m not the one who determined the price, so I can’t provide a specific answer on the price of the system.
But the one thing that I think everyone needs to understand is that when you’re buying a Wii U, you’re buying a hardware system that comes with a tablet-like device and so if any of the other hardware systems were to try and include a tablet or device similar to the Wii U GamePad, those hardware systems would go up in price by easily a hundred dollars or more.Miyamoto: PS4/Xbox One "easily $100 more if they came with Gamepad" - NeoGAF
