| Michael-5 said: That sounds about right, and I'm pretty sure the Wii U will undercut the PS4 and Nextbox by $100. If you ever pay attention to Nintendo console prices, they have stayed at about current day $300, when you take into account inflation. NES and SNES were about $200 system, N64 was $230 I recall and Gamecube started at $250. Wii was $280 and the most expensive console upon release when you look at inflation. If PS4 and Nextbox are $400 out of the gate, then that will be awesome. I learned not to buy first gen systems (which aren't Nintendo) with my PS1-3 and 360, so as soon as they do the first price cut, I could afford both system. But one last point, didn't PS2 start at $400 or something at the start? I know the price quickly dropped when they could meet demand, but if that was the case for the PS2, I think we still might see $500 NextBox/PS4 consoles. However they wouldn't stay that expensive for long. Right now....Wii time, I only got it a year ago and damn XenoBlade is addictive. Much better then any Final Fantasy game I have ever played...and almost any JRPG I have ever played. |
The PS2 launched at $300, here is a link to check it:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/sony-announces-ps2-launch-date-and-price-2568701
The first one that raised the launch standard price was the Xbox360, that launched with two configurations, one for $300 and one for $400
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_launch#Release_dates_and_pricing
And the PS3 came out also with two models and prices the 20Gb for $500 and the 60GB for $600, so the console even with a $500 model struggled a lot the first year.
