Idea: New peripheral company. costs?

Fans, possible. My plan is elite gear mostly. Usually different tiers.

Example -
Wired NES controller with microswitch buttons, slightly remodeled more ergonomic design, non slip coating.
wired NES controller with microswitch buttons, variable turbo for each button, slightly remodeled more ergonomic design, nonslip coating.
wireless NES controller with microswitch buttons, variable turbo for each button, slightly remodeled more ergonomic design, nonslip coating.

so on and so forth

 

thats good that fans might be on the menu even if far far far into the future

the issue with tiers is that most customers will buy the one with the most features rather then the low cost model
like the wireless model is likely to sell the most leaving the wired and wired entry level models in the dust

also hopefully be consumer friendly and use AA battery's instead of horrid AAA or coin

 

Probably going to start with just the easiest one...try to have a few hundred made. See if I can get them distributed.

 

You could always get one of those 3D printers and make your own casings (in seriously limited runs obviously). Tooling for custom plastics can be a very large expense.

 

yah well 3d printing is still rather expensive even makerbot is $1,000-3,000 depending on if you buy the kit or make it yourself

 

And that is a lot less then the cost for tooling complex plastics, even small ones.

 

vacuforming with thick plastic sheets are cheaper at less then 200 for a sheet and simple wood box and vacume cleaner and home oven to heat anf forum the plastic

if a makerbot could cost less then 500 it would be perfect but 1100 for a process that takes a few hours yah no thanks

 

Vacuforming is good for large items, but when you look at small items, you can lose a lot of details and consistency across multiplle runs is harder.

 

If I were to try to get a loan, how much would you say?

 

having collateral would help for starters
ide say start small not bite off more then you can chew and see about $5000 or less
just to try prototyping and see if it even feasible

 

Vinyl dye, an X-Acto Knife, a soldering iron, patience, and a wide variety of D-Pads are your friend in this instance.

Before you even determine the costs, see what you can do with stock controllers. If you could mod them and enhance them, that alone would be a good start. All you need to do is improvise in terms of gamers' demands. Let me know if you can make a Dreamcast controller have a good D-pad. ;{D>