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

[Squilliam]

darkknightkryta said:

Squilliam said:
$199 is a pretty astute price. The 16GB PS3 is rumoured to start at $179 at the end of this year for a comparable model and the Xbox 360 will probably be cut down to ~$149 - $199 with Kinect. I don't think they could get away with charging much more than that, they need to offer good value against two very established competitors.

But then what are they competing for?  Scraps of gamers?  I don't know how much that controller is going to cost, but assuming 30 dollars bill of meterials, that means Nintendo is putting together a 170 dollars piece of technology... that won't exactly get you very far.  So either they really under powered the Wii U to PS3/360 levels or this rumoured price is wrong.

They have a console with similar capabilities as other HD consoles so why should they charge twice the price? The tablet is there to make the system more accessible (less intimidating) and offer wider gameplay possibilities. $199 - $249 are both good prices, $299 seems to be quite excessive. The system isn't significantly different in terms of hardware to the original Wii and that system was originally supposed to be priced at $199 without a game so $199 for the Wii U without a game seems pretty comparable.