250 Wii?
polycounter lvl 18
Wii for 250
I think this is great. While the lineup was sorta hit or miss at e3 i am sure that it will get better and with the price at half the cost of the "low end" ps3 this is sure to get people to buy this console.
I think this is great. While the lineup was sorta hit or miss at e3 i am sure that it will get better and with the price at half the cost of the "low end" ps3 this is sure to get people to buy this console.
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EVERY Nintendo console has been $200, so there's no reason to think this one will cost more.
It's a great price point. Now if they make more than a handful of good games this time, the system might be worth it
But yea, nice that they still managed to get it cheap. Can't say it makes me want one anymore, but it is very nice for all those nintendo fans out there.
I think the original NES was just $100, and it's being cheaper than the Sega Master System is one of the reasons it caught on despite having 'inferior' hardware. Then again, it was twenty years ago, and I admit I don't remember so good. I do remember that he first game I bought for it was Kung Fu, and that set me back just $22
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the orginal nes debuted at 200 in 1986, it went down to 100 a few years after launch.
Why would they do that? To exceed expectations.
"An executive from SEGA goes further, suggesting that Wii will launch for under $200"
http://cube.gamespy.com/articles/710/710186p1.html
Reggie Fils-Aime is the new president of Nintendo of America.
It's still considerably cheaper than anything else out or coming out soon. The 200 selling point also makes sense given their tradition, but i still think it's interestingly good news.
What it will do is make the consumer opt for one of the more expensive consoles and the WII or just go for the WII itself.
Either way it guarantees a pretty good console base, assuming the games dont suck.
Ahh well, the games will still appeal to the same people they do now, and life will go on.
(says the PC Gamer).
Scott
X-Box and PS3are doomed.
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Except that Xbox 360 is already well on it's feet, and had an amazing E3, and Sony is such a powerhouse that they are good to go no matter what I'd think.
And nintendo continues to not appeal to a great portion of North American gamers who still see it as kiddy.
All the systems will have their markets, and all will survive at this point I'm thinking.
I don't think any of the consoles will fail. They will all have their market, as they always have.
Unless of course we define "fail" as "fail to make a profit".
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Well if that's how we define failure, then wouldn't that make both the original XBox and PS2 failures?
Did I miss something?
really i sold my sole, for a Wii.
personnally i hope they do well. and kick MS and sony to the curb, cos theyre policy of flash graphics over gameplay has really pissed me off recently, i love games, yet i have bought a total of like four, in the past three months.
i remember being about twelve and going to the local, "games dealer" (dodgy buggers they were) and thinking wow all these possiblities, hwo far will my pocketmoney go (about 30p a week). now i often go to a game shop, search for ages and come away with nowt.
Must suck to run around barefoot.
Thnom, veryone keeps saying its graphics are last/current gen, but from what ive seen, they look pretty good to me, not quite as good as good as 360s (no hd etc) but not as big a difference as people are making out IMO
That's why I'm hoping it's cheap, but who knows how expensive that controller tech is.
"Revolution will build on GameCube's configuration of 24MBs 1T-SRAM and 16MBs D-RAM (40MBs) by adding an addition 64MBs of 1T-SRAM. The result is a supply of memory in Revolution that totals 104MBs. That number does not consider either the 512MBs of allegedly accessible (but hardly ideal) Flash RAM or the Hollywood GPU's on-board memory, said to be 3MBs by sources. "
I've never liked a single game nintendo made. They're supposedly revolutionary with their game designs, but from what I've played revolutionary usually meant frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of people enjoy it, but it can't really be that hard to see why most people would rather play awesome looking cool games with more familiarity than mess around with yellow stars and pink balloons all day, until you've collected some ludacris amount through repetitive gaming.
Are you sure about that pixelshader support?
KDR----"It's using SRAM, that stuff's at least four times as expensive as DRAM but has sub-nanosecond latencies.
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is that good :-z
SkullboX - fair enough but its all very opinion based, and alot of other opinions say otherwise.
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I was saying I find it odd that a lot of nintendo fans don't see that most people do not care for the type of 'revolutionary' gameplay nintendo offers, certainly not when it looks as bad as it does (technically). Whatever your definition of 'a lot' is, it certainly isn't a majority opinions.
Since 1998, select gaming journalists have been pooled together to decide what they thought were the best products at E3. This year, 37 judges, from outlets such as Rolling Stone, GameSpot, and The Los Angeles Times, tallied together their votes. (Each year, GameSpot also doles out its own Best of E3 Awards.) "
With that being the case, Microsoft won, hands down. Both on the PC and 360 front.
Don't equate Rare with Nintendo, the masters of the collectathon have joined Microsoft now. Nintendo doesn't require you to collect 20 Bafmodads to progress. Sure, the Mario games do require a certain number of stars to progress but those are earned by completing a level so in effect it's just "Beat 70 levels". As for familiarity, with the Wii Nintendo is aiming to make the controls more "familiar" especially to people who aren't familiar with the current control setups (which includes PC-only and gamers whose last console was the VCS or NES).
I've read rumors that Nintendo will go as low as 150$ but 200$ seems the most likely price (remember, those 250$ maximum they claimed are the same price the GC launched for in Japan). MS will not beat that. They might attempt a price drop by 50$ but so far it doesn't look like they'll do that, they're losing too much money per unit, Sony is asking a price so far out MS doesn't need to react and they claim they don't see the Wii as a competitor.
Nintendo makes games that 4 year old can play and enjoy, and a 30 year old can play and enjoy.
My DS has had at least twice as much use that my higher specced PSP has had.