Wii U: The price is right or is $299 the new $599?

[gergroy]

HappySqurriel said:

richardhutnik said:
To me, it feels $50 too expensive for both models. But, given the exchange rate and early adopter madness, who am I to say here?

I couldn't disagree more ...

If given the choice, I would rather have Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft invest in game development than subsidize hardware. For the billions of dollars lost up front on getting people cutting edge hardware, a company like Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft could develop dozens of games and/or "money-hat" dozens (to potentially hundreds) of exclusive games.

I kind of agree, as a system needs some good games in order to get me to buy it.  Right now the Wii U doesn't actually have anything that interests me so I'm not actually interested in buying it, no matter how cheap it is.

However, hardware can pretty tempting as well.  I bought the ps3 and didn't get any games for almost a year because I wanted the blu ray player.  In the end, Sony has gotten me to buy almost thirty games because they had the cheapest blu ray player on the market... seemed to work for them...