Wii U Could Cost $600 At Release?

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Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:

Zlejedi said:

Slimebeast said:
Ridicilous article. It will cost no more than $300.

Only if it's underpowered to the levels of X360/PS3

Which it pretty much will. Look at all the upcoming PS360 multiplatforms that are also planned for the Wii U like Aliens Colonial Marines. Yes, it might be able to do 1080p instead of 720p and thus perhaps have a twice as powerful GPU as the PS360 but by 2012 even that kind of GPU will be old and very cheap tech.

How I am thinking to myself: Okay, the hardware is relatively stronger than the original Wii which would mean say $300 instead of a $250 launch price for the machine itself and then you have to add $50 for the advanced Wii U controller which would give a $350 launch price for the Wii U if they wanted to make a little profit with every unit solds like with the Wii. But Nintendo learned from the 3DS launch fiasco and thus will allow themselves instead to lose a few Dollars on each Wii U unit sold to offer an attractive price - $300.

By that logic, the 360 was only twice as strong as the PS2 and Xbox, since it launched with a stupid number of multiplats (including King Kong and the like).

Yeah I felt like my logic was halting there. But according to rumours it is in that ballpark (2-3 times stronger than a X360).