| mike_intellivision said: http://loudmouthedgamers.com/blog/2012/06/20/rumor-wii-u-coming-in-december-to-500-price-point/ Essentially, this was a website running with the Amazon placeholder as news. It even got picked up by N4G: http://n4g.com/news/1022143/rumor-wii-u-coming-in-december-to-500-price-point The original poster not spend the minute it would take to translate the text (which the update notes and a separate thread herein discusses) that clearly states that Nintendo has not provided the price. Instead, they went to a currency calcultor to find out how much euro400 is in USD ($504) and posted. The poster didn't even think that even if this were the price, it probably would be normalized (to USD $400) by Nintendo. It just seems to me that people are more apt to speculate negatively about Nintendo ... or do I just notice it more since I am following Nintendo more closely this generation. (Or does it happen more to Nintendo because it plays things closer to the vest and thus without information, a vacuum must be filled).
Mike from Morgantown
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First, people generally believe bad news. Bad news spreads quickly and people are generally more likely to believe it. This is just a phenomenom of humanity.
Secondly, why converting currency is worse than assuming it will be $100 cheaper?
