We don't know how much the GamePad costs to buy because they aren't on sale yet. We've only been given a price for them in Japan.
No, we don't know how much the GamePad would cost over here, but we have to just go with the sources available - of which we have two:
A) we have Nintendo Japan announcing the gamepad as being around 13,440 yen (£107 - before 20% vat); and
B) we have you guessing it'll be about £70.
Either way, it doesn't matter one jot whether £70 or £130 of the £300 relates to the gamepad. £300 is too much to charge for a console that doesn't perform like a next gen platform should.
...which is around the same price as a remote and nunchuck combination when the Wii launched that absolutely nobody had a problem paying.
You really do just make this shit up as you go, don't you.
Recommended retail price was £29.99 for the wiimote at
launch, and £14.99 for the nunchuck.
You could get them much cheaper if you shopped around, of course. I've just had a very quick look on HUKD and there were numerous deals getting you the wiimote for £22.79 and the nunchuck for £11.20, around December 2006/January 2007. That's £33.99 in total which is nowhere near £70!
And what makes you think nobody had a problem paying that much? I have a poor memory but even I remember the uproar about having to pay for primary controllers and then having to pay for peripheral controllers on top of that.
Not to mention the extra (optional) expense if you wanted traditional style wii controllers, or gamecube controllers.