Wireless technology has gotten so much better and cheaper. You see this evident in earphones and headphones, yet wireless mice are ridiculously priced against wired mice. Is it just marketing because cost of production should not be that much more than wired right? Is it the battery?
I feel like when phones started to remove the headphone jack, many companies were forced to be more competitive with wireless technologies but this hasn't translated to mice at all.
what do you mean it cost more, logitech sell plenty of mice around that sub $20 range, wireless too.
I should have been more specific sorry, I meant gaming mice.
Many of the most popular brands of mice sell wired version at $x and wireless of the same model at $(x + 50)
Because they can, those are for profit organisations afterwall.
Products are priced based on the value they deliver and what customers are prepared to pay rather than just cost plus a fixed margin.
My last wireless mouse was on clearance for $2 and it’s still working fine after 5 or 6 years.
There is no doubt that consumer willingness to pay is a factor.
Have you got some examples of this?
The wired mouse I'm using cost $89 and the wireless mouse (for a different PC) I just bought cost $69.
are they 2 different models. I am speaking more about same models of the same brand. Yet the wireless version costs ridiculously more.
No of course they're not the same model. Your OP didn't give any details, so I too left out important details but chose to speak to the subject you had which seemed to exclusively imply that wireless costs more than wired. Which is false of course. Less clickbait titles, more details… the recipe of meaningful discussions.
For anyone wondering, my wired mouse (that I was referring to in my previous comment) was the Glorious Model D-, and the wireless mouse is the Corsair Katar Pro Wireless.
I think part of the wireless tax is needed. Wireless things tend to cost more than the wired solutions so that's hardly surprising. And then the other part is probably "just because" people will be willing to pay more since it's a luxury to have it be wireless.
Glorious seems to do less gouging on their wireless counterparts, but that's just one brand that I cared to check. Generally speaking I stay away from wireless because I hate having to worry about batteries and potentially range issues or input delay, but in the interest of gaming with a keyboard and mouse on my TV from my couch I made an exception and decided to give it a whirl.
Wot?. No way….. We need a royal commission also on why….
no if anything it should cost less, its called early adopters tax
If you are talking about low latency wireless mouses, then there's not much competition going on.
It's a duopoly between the Razer Viper Ultimate and the Logitech G Pro Wireless.
These two mouses are top 5 on most rankings on top of being the best wireless mouses so they charge what they want.
Most people didn't believe wireless for competitive fps is possible due to the input lag but both Logitech and Razer made it happen.
Doesn't help that the other decent wireless mouses are also from them like the Mamba, G503, G603, G703.
Hopefully we'll see a bit more competition in the coming year with the Glorious Model O Wireless and Steelseries Aerox 3 Wireless releasing.
1) It has more parts, chips and circuitry for a wireless/bluetooth mouse so the Bill of Quantities will be higher.
2) Development and R&D costs will be higher as there's more testing, compatibility, drivers etc to figure out.
3) Rate of failure/RMAs is likely higher and factored into price (ACL cover isn't free, it's added to product costs).
4) Marketing & up-selling. More features = charge more = people will pay more.