Wow, I like! Looks like a good replacement for my Canon SD500.

Makes the 27" Dell seem like a good deal.

A desktop 8800GTS only uses 7 more watts than a desktop 7900 GTX.

I highly doubt a mobile 8 series is going to suck up that much more power than the 7 series.

To those that say the Wii should have a lower selling price:
So what if the parts of it costs significantly less than what the selling price is?

As a few have mentioned, yes, they do need to recover R&D costs. But there is a lot more to that.

Nintendo has many salaried employees. It has many more waged employees. It has to advertise and distribute the products. It has to pay rent and utilities. While I'm not too familiar with how things work in Japan, I don't believe that they give companies free access to warehouses, offices, and electricity.

All of these costs are allocated in one manner or another to the products they produce.

By covering these costs and then some, it allows Nintendo to gain a profit. This profit can be used for further R&D, whether it be new games or future consoles. If they cut the margins on their products so consumers could pay less, it could hurt Nintendo. The same is true for most companies in competitive industries. It could also hurt the consumers. Let's say the DS was a flop and didn't sell. Nintendo wouldn't have those profits to rely on. Then, lets say the Wii also did bad. What, then, if Nintendo turned into Sega? We would be left with Sony and Microsoft making consoles. Less competition is rarely a good thing for consumers.

Wow, I said way more than I needed to, I'm sure no one will read it. Oh well.

As much as I don't like Apple, even I do not believe that they would use something so ugly.