Bad News on WiiU believed even when unbelieveable.

[mike_intellivision]

silicon said:

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

 

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? 

Because Nintendo's pricing history would indicate it does not directly convert prices between markets.