Nintendo of Japan Announces Wii Details

[electricJ]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

Yah well you pay another $100 for the 360 WiFi...

Did I read in this thread that the Sports game will come with the $250 bundle or is that debunked?

Plus another $40-50 for the additional 360 wireless controller...

 

[Tom]

Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
:Q

Nintendo's Wii supports component:Q

So did the Gamecube.

...it's just that I didn't even expect S-video..jsut pain composite

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Tom
Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

that's on par with Xbox360 games. Initially they had said that the games would be cheaper than Xbox360.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
:Q

Nintendo's Wii supports component:Q

So did the Gamecube.

...it's just that I didn't even expect S-video..jsut pain composite

Why? Even the Nintendo 64 supported S-video.

 

[Al Neri]

where can I preorder?!?

 

[EvilYoda]

I can't wait

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Tom
Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

that's on par with Xbox360 games. Initially they had said that the games would be cheaper than Xbox360.

$59.99 is not on par with $49.99..

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Tom
Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

that's on par with Xbox360 games. Initially they had said that the games would be cheaper than Xbox360.

err, new xbox 360 games are usually 59.95

 

[mb]

Why were so many people expecting it to be $199? Nintendo's official stance was always that it would be "under $250" which anyone with half a brain could tell you meant $249.99.

It's like those car commercials where the announcer says "starting under twenty-thousand dollars" and the car starts at $19,999.99.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Tom
Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

that's on par with Xbox360 games. Initially they had said that the games would be cheaper than Xbox360.

err, new xbox 360 games are usually 59.95

They're varying in pricing now. Test Drive Unlimited was just released for $39.99. Rockstar Table Tennis was released at that price point. Star Wars Legos II just came out at $49.99. MS First Party games come out at $49.99.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Tom

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Tom
Glad there is still a company that hasn't lost it's mind.

first party games $49.99 list price. :thumbsup:

that's on par with Xbox360 games. Initially they had said that the games would be cheaper than Xbox360.

$59.99 is not on par with $49.99..

First party Xbox360 games are $49.99, just as Nintendo ones will be.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: supafly
Why were so many people expecting it to be $199? Nintendo's official stance was always that it would be "under $250" which anyone with half a brain could tell you meant $249.99.

It's like those car commercials where the announcer says "starting under twenty-thousand dollars" and the car starts at $19,999.99.

Because Nintendo's other consoles were released at $199.99 for the most part?

 

[everman]

Sounds great, Zelda launches soon after and that's all that matters Unfortunately metroid launches in 07.
I'm also surprised at how many games will be available, it's a nice start.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: supafly
Why were so many people expecting it to be $199? Nintendo's official stance was always that it would be "under $250" which anyone with half a brain could tell you meant $249.99.

It's like those car commercials where the announcer says "starting under twenty-thousand dollars" and the car starts at $19,999.99.

Because Nintendo's other consoles were released at $199.99 for the most part?

So don't you think they would have said it would be under $200 then?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

In an assortment of colors too!

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

In an assortment of colors too!

hmm maybe i should wait for the WII DS or something. they seem to have a history of updateing the systems heh

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?
I know you're not the only one who thought it would be $199.. I've seen people bitch & moan on engadget, gizmodo, fark, etc etc about it.. but why?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?

O'Rly?

Price
America:
Official: $250 or lower - Nintendo senior managing director Yoshihiro Mori (5/25)
$150 - Vibe Magazine (9/10)
$170 - David Gardner, executive VP and COO of EA's worldwide studios (8/21)
$175 - Text of supposed Reggie speech from Go Nintendo (8/27)
$200 - Merill Lynch analyst Justin Post (5/17)
$229 - "sources suggest" to IGN (8/7)
$229 - "A source close to Nintendo" via NintendoPlayers (9/12)
$249 - EGM (5/8)
$299 - 7-11 flier (8/4)

The price rumors were all over the board. But, like I said in a previous post $200 is what Nintendo previously released their consoles at.

Worth mentioning that the $250 price is with DVD functionality removed - Link.

"Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing and corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, confirmed to IGN Wii today that its forthcoming Wii console will not play Hollywood DVD movies. The decision to remove the functionality was made in order to deliver the machine at a cheaper cost and because most people today already own DVD players."

Sound decision though.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?

O'Rly?

Price
America:
Official: $250 or lower - Nintendo senior managing director Yoshihiro Mori (5/25)
$150 - Vibe Magazine (9/10)
$170 - David Gardner, executive VP and COO of EA's worldwide studios (8/21)
$175 - Text of supposed Reggie speech from Go Nintendo (8/27)
$200 - Merill Lynch analyst Justin Post (5/17)
$229 - "sources suggest" to IGN (8/7)
$229 - "A source close to Nintendo" via NintendoPlayers (9/12)
$249 - EGM (5/8)
$299 - 7-11 flier (8/4)

Exactly my point... $250 or lower.. means $249.99. Everything else is just a rumour/guess. If I had a Wii blog and said Nintendo would give them away for free, would you quote that too? I had a source close to Nintendo that told me that.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?
I know you're not the only one who thought it would be $199.. I've seen people bitch & moan on engadget, gizmodo, fark, etc etc about it.. but why?

why $199? because nearly every system they have released (none handheld) has been 199 thats why.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?
I know you're not the only one who thought it would be $199.. I've seen people bitch & moan on engadget, gizmodo, fark, etc etc about it.. but why?

why $199? because nearly every system they have released (none handheld) has been 199 thats why.

Wonderful.. so the PlayStation was $299... the PS2 was $299... I should expect the PS3 to be $299 even though the official word is otherwise. :thumbsup:

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Worth mentioning that the $250 price is with DVD functionality removed - Link.

"Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing and corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, confirmed to IGN Wii today that its forthcoming Wii console will not play Hollywood DVD movies. The decision to remove the functionality was made in order to deliver the machine at a cheaper cost and because most people today already own DVD players."

Sound decision though.

Absolutely. DVD functionality might have mattered for the last generation, but this time there's no point to it.

Originally posted by: supafly
Exactly my point... $250 or lower.. means $249.99. Everything else is just a rumour/guess. If I had a Wii blog and said Nintendo would give them away for free, would you quote that too? I had a source close to Nintendo that told me that.

$250 or lower could also mean that they hadn't finalized the price yet.

But I do agree that it was overly optimistic to expect that the price would be anything less than $249.99. Some people were expecting $170 - that's just crazy talk. $250 with a game is pretty reasonable, although it makes me wonder if they did it because Wii Sports isn't good enough to stand on its own. People were saying that you couldn't control the movement of your player in tennis (it was automatic), all you could do is swing... that's not great if they haven't changed that. I wonder if Wii Sports is more just an attempt to show off what the system can do rather than be a serious game... kind of like Super Scope 6 was back on the SNES. Looks to be fun to play with a group though. Damn, I can't fit 4 people swinging controllers in my living room though.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: waggy
hmm $250? was hopeing for $199 but eh i can live with it.

with the downloaded games how long do you get them for?

$250 is just high enough for me to not get it. $199 I could have lived with.

I would consider $250, but the fact that it comes with only one controller makes it really $290 when you get the second (which is a must IMO) and then tax throws it over $300. That's XBox 360 territory...

i will still get one. i will just wait a year for them to come out with a $199 bundle. wich they will.

i am dispointed that it is not $199 but heck $250 is not bad

What lead you to believe it would be $199 when everything pointed to $249?
I know you're not the only one who thought it would be $199.. I've seen people bitch & moan on engadget, gizmodo, fark, etc etc about it.. but why?

why $199? because nearly every system they have released (none handheld) has been 199 thats why.

Wonderful.. so the PlayStation was $299... the PS2 was $299... I should expect the PS3 to be $299 even though the official word is otherwise. :thumbsup:

they had not set a price until last night. so people expecting it for $199 is not unreasonable.

also the PS3 is comeing out with a dvd player that in itself is sopposed to be like $800