archbrix on 26 January 2012
| NightDragon83 said: What... the HELL... is WRONG with you people? $500 for the Wii U?... $600 Wii U??... have you all gone INSANE?!? So a console using modified off-the-shelf parts for the main hardware, no Blu-Ray or expensive proprietary media format, and a controller that is essentially a giant Wiimote with a touch screen that merely streams the video off the console rather than having its own built-in CPU/GPU combo is going to cost as much as the PS3 did at launch with it's bleeding edge technology? If Nintendo release the Wii U for anything higher than $350 it'll be D.O.A. Even $399 is looking more and more like a stretch with the inevitable PS360 price drops later this year ahead of the Wii U's launch. No way Nintendo puts out a new console that is closer in specs to the current gen than the upcoming next gen consoles at double the price of the current gen systems. |
This, although we don't know if WiiU's specs will be closer to current gen than next gen yet, as we don't know for sure what Microsoft or Sony have planned.
I still say absolutely nowhere outside of $299 to $399, with $349 the most likely.
