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

[Chandler]

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.

This is not really comparable, Sony took like a 300$ loss for each PS3 at launch. If Nintendo Launches the Wii U for 200 bucks without a pack in game we are talking about maybe  a 50$ loss at most. They could do it, but I think it's not their philosophy to do it.