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

[Andrespetmonkey]

Kresnik 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.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=145669&page=1

"Nintendo cash reserves fell from $10bn to $5.9bn in the 12 months to March 2012, that needs to slow down dramatically."

I never did understand the true reason that they'd lost so many cash reserves (although Kowenicki did explain it in that thread, it didn't make much sense to me).

So while they did make a killing with the Wii & DS, they've kind of... lost it, somehow.  Maybe it's better than it looks or something.

With this in mind, I have no idea how they can launch the Wii-U at a loss.

Wow... what the fuck. How did they lose 4 billion? That can't just be Wii U and 3DS investments can it?