ISuppli Teardown Pegs Nintendo 3DS Cost At $103

Your $250 3DS expenses Nintendo about $100 to manufacture, says the investigate definite iSuppli .

While other diversion hardware makers always surveillance the expect specifications of their gadgets to obtain hard-core gamers drooling over the numbers, Nintendo has been surprisingly not good with words about 3DS' innards. The Kyoto hulk has refused to mention even the many simple information about its new machine: the amount of RAM, the power of its CPU, even the amount of onboard storage for games and other user data.

The full inform fills in a couple of of the gaps . ISuppli says the many costly component, that it calls a "clever exploit of engineering," is the glasses-free 3-D manifestation made by Nintendo's longtime hardware associate Sharp. The review puts the cost of the shade alone at rounded off $33.

ISuppli records that the cost of 3DS does not inhere the cost of the program onboard the appurtenance and any chartering or kingship expenses that 3DS' apartment of built-in apps might incur. So Nintendo isn't actually running divided with $150 for every 3DS it sells. But that's probably a good ballpark.

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