Rumor: Wii U has $180 worth of Parts... meaning it will retail at $300 or more?

[billysastard]

I wouldn't disagree with the speculated 300$ price point, but I am curious as to what might be included. Nintendo did state that they learned a valuable lesson from the 3ds: that an expensive piece of tech with no games will just hurt them as sony is also finding out the hard way. I would bet that if there are not games that core gamers want, the system won't do well until it gets a price drop. I say core and not casual because I doubt casuals will want to put down 300 on a new console when wii fit and other more casual games work fine on their wii still. I'm still cautiously optimistic for the wii-u as I would love to see a proper console for this gen. While I know that it didn't save them, lets not forget that Sega released the Dreamcast at a weird point in the console span as well, and I feel like Nintendo is trying to do the same thing here. Is it a good strategy? who knows, but it could work when your company isn't on the brink to begin with. Also, I would like to say 2 things.


1. Nintendo Gamecube had the best graphics capabilities of that gen but poor 3rd party support and really poor support in general, which is why they just released a slightly better version with motion support in the wii. I recall statements by people in regards to how the motion gaming "fad" would fail and it was the end for nintendo and yet here we are, in an age where SKYRIM is getting support from a motion gaming inspired peripheral.

2. Nintendo, while perhaps a franchise milker, has possibly the most universally acclaimed library of first party games, by critics AND players, of any of the big three and probably any console contender all the way back to the MS and TG16. While they may not have 1000 new IPs a year, the titles they DO release Generally: have a good core concept, make good use, if not GREAT use of their hardware, Have excellent game mechanics, look at least decent given that the hardware is currently not HD and do not usually have game breaking bugs that need patched the day of release(in fact the only one I can recall, is the one on Zelda:SS). I would look to both MS and Sony to say the same for most of their core franchises. Also, if pikmin 3 is a launch title for the Wii-U(a big IF), I'm sold.

I say both these things, not from a fanboy point of view, but from someone who owns a wii and 360 and will probably get a ps3 if only for Ni No Kuni.

anyway, thats my opinion.

included will be the console, power pack, pad controller, some kind of video lead (probably sd like the 360 / ps3) and some kind of starter disc now the big question is will it be another wii sport type thing which lets be honest sold millions of wii's on its own or something more hardcore or a combo or just demos, pikmin 3 and wii fit 3 are coming too but unknown when (maybe e3 will answer that )

i think you'll find that metroid other m joined ss with a gamebreaker but it was easy to avoid and nintendo would patch your file (free) if you fucked up.

ni no kun has been delayed until into 2013 i'm afraid so you can wait a little longer to see if the ps3 falls in price some more (the news should be posted here soon(ish))

[JonathanD]

wait till you see this weeks sales figures because i think those losses are going up.

here is a hint, the latest vita sales figures share a great similarity with a very famous ship of 100 years ago this week

Looks like another high end competitor is about to join the long list of past systems that have lost to "inferior" hardware from Nintendo. Say what you want about home consoles, Nintendo has never lost the hand held market.

Getting a Wii-U at launch and avoiding any Sony products like the plague this next gen (looks like I am far from alone in that respect.) Probably will pick up Microsoft's console as a second, Microsoft seems to do things at odd numbers... Windows XP awesome, Windows Vista bad, Windows 7 awesome, Windows 8 looks like its going to be bad. So I am thinking original Xbox was awesome, 360 was slightly bad... So I am thinking that the next Xbox will be a solid machine.

Have to hand it to Nintendo, they seem to be the most consistent when it comes to hardware being reliable, the only Nintendo console I ever had to replace because of shoddy hardware was the NES.

[billysastard]

Looks like another high end competitor is about to join the long list of past systems that have lost to "inferior" hardware from Nintendo.

about to join?


original vita shipment for launch 500k (with an additional 200k reserve)
week one vita sales (inc pre orders and grey exports)
324,859 units.
vita sales from its second week to present
326,562 units


total vita lifetime sales in japan
651,421 units

good job they had that extra 200k units in reserve for its launch day isnt it ?


glug glug glug

that said the vita did manage to beat the wii by 25k units in america last month to keep hold of its now customary 4th place behind the 3ds, ps3 and 360 although sales across the board were badly down on last year (around -25%).

[JonathanD]

about to join?


original vita shipment for launch 500k (with an additional 200k reserve)
week one vita sales (inc pre orders and grey exports)
324,859 units.
vita sales from its second week to present
326,562 units


total vita lifetime sales in japan
651,421 units

good job they had that extra 200k units in reserve for its launch day isnt it ?


glug glug glug

that said the vita did manage to beat the wii by 25k units in america last month to keep hold of its now customary 4th place behind the 3ds, ps3 and 360 although sales across the board were badly down on last year (around -25%).

Honestly Wii sales being down is hardly a surprise, everyone knows the Wii-U is right around the corner and I think the market for home consoles is pretty much saturated right now with the bulk of sales being replacement units or 2nd and 3rd game systems. (In other words not too many "new" buyers.)

I think Vita sales will dip even further though until some sort of massive game gets people interested in the machine.

[Infinite_zero]

included will be the console, power pack, pad controller, some kind of video lead (probably sd like the 360 / ps3) and some kind of starter disc now the big question is will it be another wii sport type thing which lets be honest sold millions of wii's on its own or something more hardcore or a combo or just demos, pikmin 3 and wii fit 3 are coming too but unknown when (maybe e3 will answer that )

i think you'll find that metroid other m joined ss with a gamebreaker but it was easy to avoid and nintendo would patch your file (free) if you fucked up.

ni no kun has been delayed until into 2013 i'm afraid so you can wait a little longer to see if the ps3 falls in price some more (the news should be posted here soon(ish))

Good to know that a pack in game is making a return, I just hope its amazing. Maybe its just the demos that have been shown already, though(Find Mii or whatever it was called, Chase Mii, Battle Mii). As for metroid I do remember that there was a problem now but I never played it personally, my mistake though. Alas I found out about the Ni No Kuni delay after I wrote that post and it saddens me.

[billysastard]

As for metroid I do remember that there was a problem now but I never played it personally, my mistake though.

i played it (and went through the door when it opened so no gamebreaker for me but it really wasnt that great after prime trilogy.

i just hope that pandoras tower is fine as i picked up my limited edition copy yesterday morning and i'm planning on having a thrash at it this weekend and if possible i'd like to get it finished before my witcher 2 EE arrives next weekend.