Cobretti2 said:
The thing I am trying to gather is, people are saying the WiiU is underpowered but yet I bet most of them would not pay the same $$$ they would for nextBox or PS4, if they were equivalient. So does it really matter if it is only slightly better then PS3/360? If Nintendo made it beafier would they really get more 3rd party support? would those who consider themself hardcore games buy it? My guess is no. Nintendo are really banking on their loyal base to buy the console as well as make it affordable enough for people who have no brand loyalty and look for best value for money. Personally i wish consumers valued their gaming consoles like they do their iphones. I would love to see $450 become the norm, so we get great leaps each generation of consoles. But at the same time, if that happened gaming would become een more neiche. |
I think the hard drive is more then irrelevant, I can buy an external 1 TB hard drive online for 70 bucks, and I wouldn't see the value in them adding it. They would, in fact, be ripping me off.
As far as specs and pricing go, I would like to point this out. I'm a bit of a Nintendo fanboy. I'm not too worried about specs, since I am also a very avid PC gamer (a combination I see a lot, actually) but, with what revealed at E3, I do not think I'm going to buy a Wii U at luanch for more then $300 dollars. $300 or under and its definetly day one, but I don't see a value of $300 + untill it gets more first party must have games (which it will). I would however see the value in it if seemed like a large enough leap over current gen systems performance wise, and might spend up to $400 at launch in that case. I think it's a very fun looking system, and I will definetly eventually own one (for Smash Brothers with decent online if nothing else) but the value has to be there.
I'm thinking $250 is the basement price and $350 is the ceiling, maybe $400 with enough pack ins and accessories.
