| NightDragon83 said: $200 is laughable not just for the simple fact that there's no way Nintendo could afford to release it at such a low price, but also because if it were actually released at the height of the holiday shopping season, people would literally be killing each other to get one. It would be your typical midnight Black Friday scene at Walmart, except throughout the country and at any store carrying the Wii U. Edit: Not to mention all the price gouging that would occur in the 2nd hand market as people with no intention of actually playing the system snap it up and then sell it on eBay for about 3-4X the MSRP. |
That's the other point worth noting here. Nintendo left money on the table for years with Wii, and might want to avoid that again. Even if Wii U won't do as well as Wii, there's no point in not trying to milk early adopters a little. As much-maligned as Sony was for saying "people will buy it whatever we charge," it's largely true for early adopters, and its not unwise to milk them within limits (moreso than you could get away with with the mass audience, at least)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
