Wii U To Be $200 And Launch November 18th?

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Kantor said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

Kantor said:
It's significantly more powerful than a PS3, and includes an extremely expensive controller.

I really don't see it being $50 cheaper than the PS3.

I don't see it happening either, but it's not a totally ridiculous rumour seeing as nintendo are sitting on mountains of money from Wii/DS, maybe even literally. They could afford taking a huge loss.

But why would they? It's a huge risk, and there ought to be plenty of demand for the Wii U even at a significantly higher price.

Remember, Sony were sitting on mountains of money from the PS1 and PS2 back in 2006, and look where loss leading got them then. It took three years to get themselves out of that hole. The PS3 took a much bigger loss than huge, and the R&D costs and investments in CELL account for it's loses than the loss on each system. That said, you're right. Ninty have no real reason to, especially when the other next gen consoles will be arriving in a year and that should be the target for a big price drop.